Definition of special education

-
engineeroot.blogspot.comSpecial education can be  defined as the education given to the children with special needs,  which requires special equipments, special  teaching  strategies /techniques  and special  teachers.
Special education, unlike the regular educational programs tends to attend to the educational needs including  psychological ,cognitive ,emotional, social,  marital,  financial, medical and economical needs of children with special needs.
It involves training these children to maximize the little potentiality in them to be effective  in every area of life.
Special education offers wide range of enlightenment  and ways of helping the children with special needs to accumulate the abilities in disability.

Comments

ENGINEER T said…
This comment has been removed by the author.
June 20, 2018 at 6:54 PM
ENGINEER T said…
This comment has been removed by the author.
June 20, 2018 at 6:54 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

History of special education

-
INTRODUCTION   Special Education comes as a result of four unrelated event, sometimes antagonistic  factors or what one may term as human characteristics, this factors are; Superstition, Wickedness, Sympathy and Curiosity. The experience of this ancient Greek, Rome and middle Ages, Europe are being observed in twentieth century in Nigeria. The Early Beginning At Calabar, Umuahia, and elsewhere, the Good Samaritan – missionaries such as, Roman Catholic Missionary, Church Missionary society, Seventh Day Adventist mission, Sudan United missionary, America Southern Baptist Convention (ASBC), United free Church of Scotland, Sudan Interior mission, these missionaries saved the lives of disabled and trained twins. Finally in the early 1950’s the disabled in Nigeria ate from the crumbs that fell from the tables of “normal” Child. To our knowledge, the Gindiri school. For the blind was the first of these to be established and that was in January 1953 under Miss price with an enrol...
Read more

Types of Disability

-
In the earlier post I gave some categories of special education in which the disabled is among. We shall now dwell on the types of disability we have.  Types of Disability    We have differences types of disabilities which are;  1. Autism spectrum disorder  2. Deaf-blindness 3. Deafness/ hearing impairment  4. Developmental delays  5. Emotional disturbance /hyperactivity  6. Intellectual  disabilities  7. Multiple disabilities  8. Orthopedic impairment  9. Physical and health impairment  10. Learning disability 11. Speech and language impairment  12. Traumatic brain injury  13. Visual impairment /blind Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Autism Spectrum Disorder refers to a developmental disability that significantly affects communication (both verbal and nonverbal) and social interaction. These symptoms are typically evident before the age of three and adversely affect a child’s e...
Read more