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special educational needs

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Disabilities
Education

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English

special needs education term
Source: International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED, 2011), UNESCO Institute for Statistics
special education synonym
Source: CRPD/C/GC/4

Definition Education designed to facilitate learning by individuals who, for a wide variety of reasons, require additional support and adaptive pedagogical methods in order to participate and meet learning objectives in an education programme. Reasons may include (but are not limited to) disadvantages in physical, behavioural, intellectual, emotional and social capacities.

Education programmes in special needs education may follow a similar curriculum as that offered in the parallel regular education system, but they take individual needs into account by providing specific resources (e.g. specially-trained personnel, equipment or space) and, if appropriate, modified educational content or learning objectives. These programmes can be offered to individual students within already-existing education programmes or as a separate class in the same or separate educational institutions.

Remark

The category covered by the terms special needs education, special educational needs, and special education is broader than education of children with disabilities, because it includes children with other needs – for example, through disadvantages resulting from gender, ethnicity, poverty, war trauma, or orphanhood.

French

éducation répondant à des besoins particuliers term
éducation répondant à des besoins spéciaux variant
Source: Classification internationale type de l'éducation: CITE 1997