Education or training designed to facilitate learning by individuals who require support and adaptive pedagogical methods to participate in an education programme and meet learning objectives.
Comment
- Special needs may be linked – but are not limited to – disadvantages in physical, behavioural, intellectual, emotional and social capacities;
- education programmes in special needs education may follow a similar curriculum as that offered in the parallel regular education system, but they take individual needs into account by providing specific resources (e.g. specially trained personnel, equipment or space) and, if appropriate, modified educational content or learning objectives.
Source
Based on UNESCO, 2011.