Special Needs
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Synonyms
- Disability
- Special needs education
- Special education
- Disabled education
- Handicapped education
Scope note
Education of students with special learning needs such as those with disabilities or learning difficulties.
Disbability: any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.
Special needs students: broad legislative category referring to all students identified as needing special assistance to achieve educational equity, e.g., the disabled, the disadvantaged, those seeking nontraditional careers, limited English speakers
Related concepts
- Assessment of disability#
- At risk students^
- Continuation students^
- Correctional education^
- Developmental delays^
- Disabled
- Dropouts^
- Economically disadvantaged^
- Educationally disadvantaged^
- Equal education^
- Exceptional person
- Health
- Inclusion^
- Inclusive education
- Individual needs^
- Individualized education programs^
- Individualized instruction^
- Individualized transition plans^
- Intervention^
- Learning disabilities
- Limited English speaking^
- Low-income students^
- Migrants^
- Nontraditional students^
- Normalisation (handicapped)
- Pregnant students
- Reentry students^
- Rehabilitation^
- Residential care
- Resource room programs^
- Retraining^
- Slow learners
- Testing accommodations^
- Note:
- Details of the unlinked "Related Concepts" marked with # can be online access via "VOCED thesaurus”. Adelaide: NCVER, 2006. Retrieved 08 Aug 2017 from http://www.voced.edu.au/content/ngv%3A45775 ;
- Marked with ^ can be online access via "ERIC - Thesaurus - Educational Technology. Retrieved 08 Aug 2017 from https://eric.ed.gov/?qt=Special+Needs+Students+&ti=Special+Needs+Students
Collection
VPET Repository - Special Needs