Special education

Educating students in a way that takes into account their unique strengths, weaknesses, disabilities, and needs is known as special education, special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED. This requires a customised, carefully monitored set-up of accessible classroom practises, specialised learning resources, and physical space. These interventions aim to provide students with special needs with opportunities for more independence and academic and social achievement than would be possible with a more traditional classroom setting alone.

Students with cognitive impairments (such as dyslexia), social and emotional difficulties (including anxiety and depression), physical impairments (including osteogenesis imperfecta, cerebral palsy, lissencephaly, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and muscular dystrophy), and developmental impairments (including autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and intellectual disability) are the primary target population for special education programmes. Additional educational resources, such as alternative methods of instruction, the use of technology, a uniquely designed classroom, a resource room, or a designated classroom for kids with special needs, are likely to improve their educational outcomes.

Some educational theorists may include gifted education in with "special education," but the talents of the individuals involved set it apart as a teaching method. While "special education" is often used to refer to the education of kids with disabilities, intellectual giftedness is also a learning difference that might benefit from specialised teaching approaches or alternative educational programmes.

Unlike special education, which is tailored to the unique requirements of children with disabilities, remedial education may be tailored to the unique needs of any student who has reached a point of unpreparedness. A person's schooling may have been interrupted if they were forced to relocate inside their own country because of war or civil unrest.

Educators in industrialised nations often adapt their practises to serve as many kids as possible inside mainstream classrooms. Many kids may benefit from reduced social stigmas and higher academic accomplishment if they were integrated.

General, or mainstream, education is the counterpart of the more specialised field of special education. Common curricula delivered without further aids constitute general education. Classes for students with and without disabilities are sometimes combined. An inclusive classroom might look like this.