Special Needs
From VPET Repository
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
- Intervention
- Economically disadvantaged
- Educationally disadvantaged
- Equal education
- Exceptional person
- Health
- Inclusion
- Inclusive education
- Individual needs
- Individualized education programs
- Individualized instruction
- Individualized transition plans
- 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
Collection
VPET Repository - Special Needs