Correct Answer - Option 1 : disabled and gifted both
Special education is instruction designed for students with disabilities or gifts and talents, who also have special learning needs. Some of these students have difficulties in formal institutions so they need special education provisions to function in their classrooms.
- Others generally do well in regular classrooms. but they also need special educational provisions to realize their full potential.
- Special education may be provided under a variety of administrative plans.
- Some exceptional students are served in the regular classroom by their regular 'Classroom teacher, sometimes in consultation with other professionals such as psychologists and teachers with more experience.
- Some are served by an itinerant teacher who moves from institution to institution, or by a resource person.
- Sometimes, students are placed in a diagnostic perspective center so that their special needs can be determined.
- Hospital and homebound instruction are provided only when the student is unable to go to regular classes.
- Finally, the residential school provides educational services and management of the daily living environment for students with disabilities who must receive full-time care.
Hence, we can conclude that special education is associated with the educational programme for the disabled and gifted both.
