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What is special education for?
Special needs education

Special education schools are compulsory education institutions for disabled children and adolescents organized by the government, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, other social organizations and individual citizens according to law.

Special education is to educate children with special needs with universal or specially designed courses, textbooks, teaching methods, teaching organization forms and teaching equipment, so as to achieve universal and special training goals.

The purpose and task of special education is to meet the requirements of society and the educational needs of special children to the greatest extent. Develop their potential, make them increase their knowledge, acquire skills, improve their personality, enhance their social adaptability and become useful talents to society.

The role of special education;

Special education majors cultivate the knowledge and ability of general education and special education, and can mainly engage in special education practice and theoretical work in special education institutions and institutions related to special education.

Senior professionals in research and management.

Special education refers to the use of general or specially designed courses, textbooks, teaching methods, teaching organization forms and teaching equipment to educate children with special needs in order to achieve general and special training goals.

In other words, how to make children with special needs learn all kinds of knowledge and skills like normal children, how to help them build up their self-confidence and how to find and cultivate gifted children are all research fields of special pedagogy.

Special education is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to pedagogy. The basic study period is four years, and the degree of education is awarded.