Special education emphasizes:                           
The necessity of caring for special needs, adjusting

 curricula and teaching techniques in a way that suits their needs, which leads to integrating them with their peers in standard schools. There is also a need to lend scientific support to special education specialists and teachers, to enable them to implement educational strategies for both skilled and special need students. Various countries has been active in developing their programs in the field of special needs, considering the fact that response to this problem should be comprehensive. Such a response should not lay an emphasis on one aspect, while neglecting other aspects, and it should be based on protection programs as an early procedure that minimizes, to a great extent, impairments.

Special Education as a concept:
Special education is defined as a type of services and education programs which comprise certain adjustments to curricula, teaching methods or techniques in response to special needs for a group of students who are unable to cope with a standard school system. Hence, services of special education are aimed at students facing difficulties that undermine their ability to learn. It encompasses as well students with special gifts and talents. Cases, which benefit from such services, are categorized as follows:
- Mental Disabilities
- Hearing Disabilities
- Visual Disabilities
- Motor Disabilities
- Emotional Disabilities
- Autism
- Dyslexia
- Speech Problems

Special Education Objectives:
1- Getting to know abnormal children employing measurement and assessment equipment that suit every category.
2- Developing education programs for each category.
3- Developing teaching techniques for each category to achieve goals of education programs on an individual basis.
4- Developing educational means for each category.
5- Developing protection programs from disabilities in general, and exerting utmost efforts to minimize disabilities by means of such programs.
6- Considering individual differences between students by aiding them in development according to their abilities and inclinations.
7- Making use of scientific research to funnel the abilities of gifted children and opening doors for their gifts.
8- Emphasizing individual dignity and giving every individual the chance to develop his/her capabilities.
There are sub departments according to the disability:
- Autism
- Down Syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy
- Dyslexia
Each class comprises four to six children attended by two special education specialists and an assistant.

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