Inclusive education in Romania: policies and practices in post‐Communist Romania

This paper discusses current inclusive education policies and practices in Romania. There are few accounts of and no systematic study published on this topic. The Romanian special educational policies began to evolve towards integration and inclusion. Today, Romanian special education functions according to democratic principles and Romanian specialists are currently working for solutions to inclusion by adapting regular school services to the needs of the students and the specifics of the current educational system. Today there is still a series of obstacles to the development of special education to the standards of developed countries with a tradition in educating learners with unique abilities.