Special Education
Special
education is education for the exceptional children. The study of exceptional
children is the study of differences because an exceptional child is diferrent
in some ways from the average children. Exceptional children may have problems
or special talents in thinking, seeing, hearing, speaking, socializing, or
moving. More often than not such chindren have a combination of special
abilities or disabilities. Because of special abilities or disabilities, these
children require special education and related services to help them realize
their full human potential. They need specially designed instruction that can
fulfill their unique needs.
To help
the exceptional children special meterials, teaching technique, equipments
and/or facilities may be required. Visually impaired children, for instance,
may need reading meerial in large print or Braille. Hearing impaired children
mar need hearing aids or instruction in manual communication. Physically
handicapped children may need wheel-chairs, ramps and other equipments. In
addition to their individual facilities, they also need special services such
as special transportation, psychological assessment, physical and occupation
therapy, medical treatment, and counseling. All these can make special
education effective.
Special
education services may take place in two ways: integration or segregation. In
the integration service, the exceptional child is treated together with normal
peers in a certain range of integration setting depending on the child’s
ability and degree of his or her problems. On the contrary, segregation follow
the other way. An exceptional child is treated in a special school with other
children of the same kind of handicapping conditions. Segregation can also bo
conducted in an institution in which children with different handicapping
condition get over all kinds of services. This kind of institution is
considered as a place for rehabilitation center.
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