Special education has been put in place to provide services, programs and environments, to ensure that the educational needs of special needs children are provided for.

 Special education is provided to qualifying students, at no greater cost, than to any other student, and the varying special learning of needs of student’s are addressed through special education. Some children may need wheelchair accessibility, adaptive bathrooms, physio therapy,occupational therapy,or speech therapy, as part of their daily school routine, thus the need for special education school’s came about when student’s required support that goes beyond that which is normally offered or received in the regular school and classroom setting.

There are many schools educating specific special needs such as:

Autism
Down’s syndrome
Deaf or blindness
Developmental delays
Emotional disturbances
Hearing Impairment
Mental Retardation
Multiple disabilities
Orthopaedic Impairments
Specific Learning Disabilities
Speech and Language Impairment
Traumatic Brain Injury
Visual Impairment
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