SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION WITHIN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

Categories

Special schools and special classes are still dominating, but the number of integrated students increases from year to year.

The categories are as follows:

1. Pupils with special educational needs (according to the last amendment of the Act on Education of 2003) are:
pupils with physical disability, sensorial disabilities, mild and moderate mental retardation, speech disability, autism, permanent and severe difficulties in the learning process because of disturbances of their individual development (dyslexia, dysgraphia, hyperactivity etc.), multiple disabilities.
2. Pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties.
3. Pupils with disadvantages.