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

Special education in narrow sense and broad sense

Compared with the concept of special children in narrow sense and broad sense, the concept of special education also has narrow sense and broad sense. Special education for children in a narrow sense is special education in a narrow sense, and special education for children in a broad sense is special education in a broad sense.

Special needs education

Some countries put forward "special needs education", which is just like the Salamanca Declaration adopted by the World Conference on Special Needs Education held by UNESCO in June 1994: "Every child has his own unique characteristics, interests, abilities and learning needs; The design of the education system and the implementation of the education plan should take into account the wide differences of these characteristics and needs. "

Education of different types of special children

The education of different kinds of special children can be divided into blind children's education, deaf children's education, mentally retarded children's education, extraordinary children's education, speech-impaired children's education, emotional and behavioral disorders' education, multiple disabled children's education and so on.