Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Special Education

Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction.

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Abstract

Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction.

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3 entry terms
  • Education, Special
  • Educations, Special
  • Special Educations

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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68(66)

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  1. I02w.233.213w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Special Education. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004519. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004519
  2. Special Education. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_education
  3. Special Education. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212105