Izglītības pieejamības tiesiskās garantijas personām ar garīgās attīstības traucējumiem
Legal guarantees of access to education for persons with intellectual disabilities

Summary/Abstract: The access to education for an individual consisits of providing opportunities for obtaining quality education and improving the quality of her life. Among the wide range of the holders of a right to education are individuals with special legal status - persons with intellectual disabilities. The peculiarities of legal regulation of their status in the field of education makes it necessary to consolidate the guarantees of the right to education in order to prevent the fact that they are excluded from the education system and public life in general. The legal guarantees of access to education for this category of persons are not fully regulated, and also the rights that have been already developed have to be improved. The aim of the article is to evaluate the most important legal guarantees of the access to education for people with intellectual disabilities, which includes making use of the lessons learned in several national and international studies that are analysed in the article. The author concludes that provisions of legal guarantees of access to education for persons with intellectual disabilities are rather an exception than standard practice.

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