Categories of special education

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Special education encompasses a wider range of educational system,  it is divided into three categories;
1. The disabled
2. The disadvantage
3. The gifted and talented

The disabled : this are the set of people who are having one deforming or the other,  people who have their part of the body damaged. This set of people  are having  impairment,  thereby limiting them from performing a particular task.
Examples are the hearing impaired,  visual impaired,  physical and health impairment,  autistic, behavioral disorder,  mentally  retarded,  learning disabled etc.

The disadvantage: These are categories of peoples who don't have access to the societal norms, that is that are denied due to their condition which may be financial,  psychological,  age, philosophical etc.
Examples are the normadic, migrant fishermen,  aged,  prison inmate, juveniles , homeless people etc.

The gifted and talented : This categories of peoples are peoples with sense of reasoning  and mentality, people who can handle any task perfectly and presents any job well done.
Giftedness-can only perform at a specific area.
Talentedness-can perform at every given task and acts extraordinarily.

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