Needs and Importance of special Education/ Segregated
Education
1.When individual differences in learners are found to such on extent that all of them cannot be benefitted in formal classes, they are put into category of exceptional for special learning arrangement. This is the responsibility of every democratic country to do its best for the maximum development of all its citizens.
2. Gifted and talented children are the assests of the society. If they are not given proper opportunity to flourish in their own way, it will be the loss of the society itself.
3. Exceptional children cannot take the benefit of regular classes due to their unique needs and abilities. They need special curriculum, special teaching strategies and special teacher to develop them to fullest extent.
4. Exceptional children can became a liability for the society if efforts are not made to educate. They can be proved to productive in these areas where they are not disabled. For example, a blind person be a good musician or a good teacher thought he is unable to perform in those areas which require activity of vision.
5. Special education requires many services like handicapped children may require physio-therapy, occupational therapy and periodic physical examination. Some exceptional children need to be kept under constant medical supervision. Periodic examination may be necessary for blind and hard of hearing children.
6. Special education helps teachers, guardians, researchers and educational administrators to understand the specific problems faced by disabled children.
7. The importance of special education can be associated with the problem faced by a teacher in a regular class. If in a regular class, a number of exceptional children are present, the teacher will have to devise a method of instruction which is suitable for all. But, in practice, it is difficult for the teacher and also for the students to face problem in understand the instructions. These requires separate class for exceptional children. In this way, special education is not only meant to help the exceptional children but it is also helpful for regular class teacher.
8. Selective placement is entailed through special education. It involves the complete assessment of children as well as their social environment by professionally qualified experts from different fields. Physical examinations and evaluations by specialists and experts like audiologists, psychologists and educationists are necessary for proper selective placement of many types of disabled children.
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