What is special education?
According to Dictionary.com special education is,"education that is modified or particularized for those having singular needs or disabilities, as handicapped or maladjusted people, slow learners, or gifted children." This is definitely the foundation for the definition of special education, but when you dig deeper it is so much more. Special education is not just classroom learning, it is life experiences. It is teaching children with different needs how to communicate, how to learn, and how to be themselves in a world where different is not always accepted. Special education is also teaching the child to be comfortable and confident in who they are and accepting their differences. Special education truly is just what it is called; SPECIAL! It not only educates the student, but also every person involved in the life of that child.