why is the word 'special' necessary for education? Can someone give me another word?

Question

to me that offensive. so when my dog runs into the fence for no reason, is he special too. i just call him like i see, sh=t for brains.

Answer 1

how about "unique"

Answer 2

when u choose the dog instead of people it says all u meant u need not expose more of your contempt, if you were rewarded in life a big as u act then it was a good experience for u, but for maybe the ones that are left to the corporal punishment of sociolpathic ugly people it has really meaning- i was beautiful and normal til i was six and step father had to take the whole 129th infantry from Illinois to California in 1949 for the training OF TROOPS FOR KORIAN, when i got there my nose was flat and and i was deaf and that was 1100 nickel Beer's later and the guy was six foot three and two hundred and seventy pounds, i was 45 lb, and was full of rickets spinal bifidis and everything u could imagine from being left to die in the first week on earth as the war spared no one, all who came through the second world war or who were born in to it can tell u horrors that u are lucky to brag the way u do

Answer 3

I find the word "retarded" extremely offensive. I work with special needs children. Children are not their disability or disorder. For example, a child with autism is not the autistic child. The disability does not represent the child. Special needs covers all bases and the word special simply means needs other than that of someone without a disorder or disability.

Answer 4

Crabby makes a good point. I am a teacher and the director of a private school for students with learning disabilities. None of my students are "retarded" some have dyslexia, some have auditory processing disorder, some are asbergers, others are high functioning autistic. None of them are dumb, all of them have not been given the opportunity to be successful, all of them have the intelligence and academic potential to attend college. when I tell people I work with kids with learning disabilities they automatically assume retarded. My students have been labeled under the "special ed" umbrella and thus underestimated.

Answer 5

what is more important is that the educational program will be specialized based on the child's different ability. educational services will be individualized based on a child with a different learning ability. some students with autism could be gifted and talented thus the educational supports will have to be 'special' or different. it will be different but should address the same educational goals for all students.

Answer 6

It's not supposed to be offensive; it's supposed to be a euphemism.

"Special Needs" is the term teachers use for children who need more than the ordinary amount of attention in order to learn effectively.

Answer 7

Most students who have special needs are people with disabilities--and most (with the exception of those with some cognitive impairments) are as intellligent as other students. But they continue to be saddled with labels intended to spare the feelings of parents, etc. And that is offensive to people with disabilities.

People who are concerned with teaching children with disabilities--including, obviously the "teachers" who've answered here--never bother to find out what people with disabilities prefer to be called--or how to refer to them. And that is VERY offensive to the one group who have a right to have an opinion--the disabled.

Answer 8

Developmentally-Specific Education???

Answer 9

my son has special needs . and id rather the teachers explain that to the other children as special needs than them tell the children that he is autistic and that his brain works differently too theres it just sounds nicer and not so harsh and the other children are more accepting to that phrase special needs it just means that they need a little extra help compared to the children to help him learn its nothing to do with having mashed up brains i find that offensive !!!!!

Answer 10

special education are for children with exceptionalities. they are human, and they are not to be compared with your dog. special meant special needs or their exceptionality that are given special attention meaning education for them are made to be individualized because they have different needs to be improved on and helped to be developed to be able to be classified in the least restrictive environment.

Answer 11

It is a special education, meaning it is 'apart' from the norm....and, because - students with 'different learning needs to their mainstream peers', is too long...... Maybe your dog is blind?? Or maybe he is acting the way he's treated??