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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 2: Special Education: Objectives and Need

Unit 2: Special Education: Objectives and Need Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
2.1 Objectives of Special Education
2.2 Individualized Education Programs
2.3 Special Educational Needs (SEN)
2.4 Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA)
2.5 Disability as a Category of Special Educational Needs
2.6 Summary
2.7 Keywords
2.8 Review Questions
2.9 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to discuss about the objectives of special education.
• to explain about the individualized education program.
• to know about special educational needs and disability.
• to assess disability as a category of special educational needs.

Introduction

Goals and objectives are the areas that child will work on throughout the year in the classroom, with
a special education teacher, a counselor or in some other way. Monitoring can be through completion
of tasks, teacher observation, etc. The measurement can be through grades, standardized tests or
mastery of a task. Each goal and subsequent objectives has a page dedicated to it. Goals can be
related to academics, self-help skills, behavior, counseling, etc.
Today's special education takes account of the fact that different students have different special needs.
Some need help dealing with the social and psychological problems they face as a result of their
exceptionality. Many students who are gifted, for example, feel isolated from their classmates. Special
education programs not only challenge special children intellectually, but also help special children
deal with special children's feelings of alienation. Other exceptional students need special services
because of what they are not able to do, because some disabling condition limits their ability to learn
in the typical educational program. Students who are blind, for example, may need to be taught to
read in braille or by means of large-print books. Students who cannot hear need instruction in a
manual sign language or some other special communication system. These student also face social
and psychological challenges. They have to learn to cope with not only the challenge of their
handicapping condition, but also other people's re-actions to their conditions. For many students
whose special needs mean learning in separate education setting, there's the added knowledge that
their educational experiences are not like those of other people.
By dealing with these diverse needs, special education has become a sophisticated series of educational
alternatives that is considered the right of every student with disabilities. Educators must make
choices about who receives special education services, and the choice usually depends on ideas of
"normality" and "abnormality."

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