Educational Right for Children with Special Needs: A comparison between Malaysia and Thailand

Abstract

Even though Section 28 of the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 provides the educational right for persons with disabilities, especially children with special needs, their educational right is not protected effectively since the laws and regulations governing the educational right of children with special needs in Malaysia are scattered. This paper aims to compare the practice of laws relating to special education between Malaysia and Thailand. The authors conduct a doctrinal analysis to complete this paper where textbooks and journal articles related to special education for children with special needs in Malaysia and Thailand are analysed. Keywords: Educational Right; Special Education; Children with Special Needs; Persons with Disabilities eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i19.2451