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