special education

1. 1.

   education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom

   Broadereducation

Questions about special education

What does special education mean?

special education means "education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom".

Is special education a common word?

special education is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.