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Special Education

Special education helps children with disabilities learn through novel teaching methods, modified environment, and specially catered curricula support their needs.


Importance of Special Education

Students with special needs face challenges that can interfere with their learning. As these students have different sets of needs and challenges, tailored programmes are required to match their unique educational demands to allow them access to education.


Common Forms of Special Education

  • Working on schoolwork

  • Learning how to read, write, work with numbers

  • Learning self-expression and how to understand others

  • Picking up social skills through interacting with friends and teachers

  • Cultivating proper behaviours in school

  • Organising themselves


Differences Between Special Education and General Education

Special Needs Student:

  • Spend time in both general education classroom and partly in special needs class.

  • Need intensive support to manage their behaviour and/or attention.

  • Are in classroom sizes ranging from one-on-one to small groups for individualised attention.


Special Education Teachers:

  • Share many of the same duties as general education teachers. However, at the elementary level, special needs teachers generally emphasise on reading, writing, mathematics, teaching mobility, and communication.

  • Work closely with allied health professionals such as speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, therapy aides, social workers and others in special needs classes.


Common Special Needs:



  • Autism spectrum disorder

  • Deaf-blindness

  • Deafness

  • Developmental delay

  • Emotional disturbance

  • Hearing impairment

  • Intellectual disability

  • Multiple disabilities

  • Orthopedic impairment

  • Other health impairment

  • Specific learning disability

  • Speech and language impairment

  • Traumatic brain injury

  • Visual impairment (incld. blindness)


It is not easy for children with any kind of disability to keep pace with others. Designing a structure of education that overpowers their disadvantages related to these disabilities, is a necessity for their growth and development.



Written by: Eulisia Er | Designed by: Ng Ray | Edited by: Xavierlyn Tan

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