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

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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


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