What is Special Education

Special Education is the set of educational services provided to students with confirmed special educational needs and with or without disabilities. With special education, an effort is made for the child to join society as a non-dependent but also productive member. Special education includes everything that is offered to the child and has an auxiliary role, something that must be given in the school context and throughout the child's school life.

In order to achieve the goals of special education, it has been given the following characteristics:

1. special diagnostic, medical, psychological and educational services
2. special programs
3. special areas
4. special instruments and means as well as special teaching techniques.

The role of the special educator is important and extremely helpful in improving the child's learning level. Some of the goals set in the context of special education concern the improvement of the following skills:

• reading
• writing
• understanding or memorizing text
• mathematics
• concentration of attention
• verbal and non-verbal communication
• self service
• social skills

The special educator usually follows the following steps:

1. They thoroughly assess the child with weighted and unweighted tools that examine all of their skills and sets the program's goals.
2. Based on the assessment, they prepare an individualized intervention program in order to strengthen the child's weaknesses.
3. The goals set are of gradable difficulty and constantly evolve during the program depending on the child's goals.