UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MALANG - PENDIDIKAN LUAR BIASA

Implementation of the compulsory education program for children aged 7-12 years, including children with special needs, requires special education personnel for children with physical and/or mental disabilities. In this regard, IKIP Malang (now UM) feels compelled to provide professional educators in the field of children with special needs. For this reason, in 1984/1985 IKIP Malang began to accept functional lecturers with special education qualifications. Considering that at that time there were no PLB majors/study programs, the lecturers were seconded to the Department of Education Curriculum & Technology and were given the authority to open PLB minor programs for students within the Faculty of Education, IKIP Malang.
Along with the increasing public awareness of educational services for children with disabilities or special needs, which is marked by the many establishments of formal and non-formal educational institutions to provide services to children with special needs, the consequences of the need for professional human resources in the field of Special Education are also increasing. On that basis, the Faculty of Education, State University of Malang as a higher education institution that has the authority to provide educators and professional education personnel as required in the Law on Teachers and Lecturers, as well as the regulations of the National Professional Standards Agency, starts the 2010/2011 academic year. opened the S1 Special Education Study Program, and assigned Prof. Dr. Mohammad Efendi M.Pd, M.
Considering the future direction of institutional capacity development, based on the Rector's Decree No. 881/UN32/DT/2014 dated August 14, 2014 regarding the Improvement of the Status of the Special Education Study Program, which was originally under the coordination of the Department of Primary and Preschool Education (KSDP) to be upgraded to an independent Special Education Department.

Head of the Special Education Department (transition 2014-2016), Head of the PLB S-1 Department/Prodi: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Efendi MPd., MKes., Secretary of the Department: Drs. Abdul Huda MPd., Head of PLB Laboratory: Drs. Ir. Ero Wahyuno MSi. Head of the Special Education Department for the first period (2016-2019), Head of the PLB S-1 Department/Prodi: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Efendi MPd., MKes., Secretary of the Department: Drs. Abdul Huda MPd., Head of PLB Laboratory: Dra. Wiwik Dwihastuti MPd./Dra. Sudarsini MPd. Leader of the second period of the Special Education Department (2019-2022), Head of the PLB S-1 Department / Study Program: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Efendi MPd., MKes., Secretary of the Department: Drs. Abdul Huda MPd., Head of PLB Laboratory: Drs. M. Shodiq AM MPd.. Since the 2017 academic year, the Department of Special Education, FIP UM, has opened a Master's Program in Special Education with the head of the study program, Dr.