| Special education can be defined as specially | | | | programs for each student to help with the child's |
| configured instructions and other education-related | | | | activities of daily living. As technology plays an |
| services to meet the educational, social, emotional, and | | | | important role in special education, a teacher is |
| vocational needs of students with disabilities. Special | | | | expected to instruct the students and their parents on |
| education teachers educate students who have | | | | the latest instrumentations and its usage in disability, as |
| various types of disabilities, including speech or | | | | the case maybe. For instance, interactive software |
| language impairments, mental retardation, emotional | | | | and computers that talk are now available in the |
| distress, hearing impairments, orthopedic impairments, | | | | market, which would be of great help for students with |
| multiple disabilities, specific learning disabilities, visual | | | | speech impairments. It requires a lot of enthusiasm, |
| impairments, autism, combined blindness and deafness, | | | | optimism, patience, tolerance, and perseverance for |
| traumatic brain injury, and other health impairments. A | | | | one to be a special education teacher as the job |
| special educator has to work with students of all ages | | | | involves a lot of interaction with students of all age |
| from infants and toddlers, students in elementary, | | | | groups and with other people. |
| middle, and high schools, as well as youths. The special | | | | In the United States, all states demand special |
| educator's job also involves working with a team of | | | | education teachers to be licensed. The special |
| professionals, i.e., doctors, speech pathologists, social | | | | education teacher has to complete of a teacher's |
| workers, orthopedists, psychiatrists, counselors, etc. | | | | training program and must have a Bachelor's degree |
| The teaching methods and techniques in special | | | | or a Master's degree. As they deal with students with |
| education would vary based on the disability and it | | | | mild to profound disabilities, their job demands |
| would also vary from individual to individual. | | | | specialization in either one or other areas of disability, |
| The teaching methods include individual instructions, | | | | which would enable the teachers to develop their own |
| problem-solving techniques, group work, and special | | | | curriculum materials and teaching techniques to meet |
| assignments depending upon the needs of the | | | | the needs of the students. |
| individual. They can also develop individual educational | | | | |