Mild disability
Introduction
Special education remains to be one of the main branches of formal education. Though not popular with many people in the society, it continues to be the stronghold of the education system that endeavors and strives to bring equality to entire society through educating the less fortunate in the society. Special education just like the normal classroom education both shares a great deal of similarities and differences. Special education entails an array of services, supports and accommodations developed to assists students with various and varied disabilities attain specific and measurable goals that would help them attain several long term objectives aimed at improving their general welfare.
Special education as it exists to be on its current state faces numerous challenges. The fact that the entire services provided through the special education program are typically determined, specialized and based on the specific type of disability makes the entire system even more complicated. For example the services a visually impaired student receives are greatly divergent from the type of services a student with cognitive disability receives. Most surprisingly the services too might perhaps be delivered and managed experts and specialists who deals with specific types of disability. The special requirements by numerous students in the special education program greatly hinder service delivery. This ranges from the number of the required personnel to handle a specific type of disability to the resource requirements.
Special education is considered by educators and many other specialists in the field to one of the most challenging. This has seen great exodus of high numbers of personnel from this education subsector. Thus, educators in this field should be given all the administrative support, professional development, resources and materials that would motivate them stick in their profession.
Reference
Janet W. Lerner (Author), Beverley Johns, (2001), Learning disabilities and related mild disabilities (12th ed)
