The Needs Of Exceptional Children in Schools

Exceptional children are students who suffer from physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, or developemental disorders or disabilities.  These students face challenges learning or communicating in the classsroom setting.  Students who qualify for special services have been tested and approved for an IEP (Individualized Education Plan).  Their are four ways to educate exceptional students with IEPs.  First, is Inclusion.  This is where the student spends the majority of their day being educated with students without disabilities.  Second is Mainstreaming.  This is when the student is educated with students without disabilities for a designated period of time during the school day.  Then they are educated in a special needs class the rest of the day.  Third, is Segregation.  This is  when a student is educated in a self contained classroom, or school.  They have no interaction with students without disabilities, unless its during lunch in a regular school.  The last is exclusion.  This is when a student is not educated in school at all.  Some exceptional children's IEPs have modifications.  That means they receive extra time, skip subjects, extra aids, shorter and simpler assignments.  Other exceptional students receive accomodations.  Their schedules and class settings may have been adapted.  Or, they may be able to communicate in class settings differently ftrom other students.