PT Journal
AU Penafiel Martinez, F
   Hernandez Fernandez, A
TI The hospital environment in education in Spain proposal for intervention
SO Journal of Exceptional People
PY 2012
BP 89
EP 102
VL 1
IS 1
DE hospital; education; hospital classrooms; health; educational care
AB The care of pupils with health problems, who spend long periods of time in medical centres, is handled through compensatory education programmes aimed at balancing the deficiencies that the regular system offers to such pupils. The hospital classrooms respond to the basic right of the Spanish as expressed in Article 27 of the Constitution: "Everyone has the right to education." However, the mentioned classrooms are regulated by Law 13/1982 on social integration of the disabled; the Article 29 of the law duly states that all hospitals with paediatric services are obliged to have a pedagogical section. The aim of these sections or classrooms is to avoid the marginalization of the education process of school-age pupils in hospitals. In other words; to enable hospitalized children some sort of continuity in their education so that they do not miss out their educational development and can integrate better in school once discharged.
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