Special education provision outside a regular classroom is referred to as mainstreaming, w

Special education is instruction that is modified or particularized for those students with special needs, such as learning differences, mental health problems, specific disabilities (physical or developmental), and giftedness. Special Education has a different quality in different countries. The po

Progress in Special Education saw a major reversal as the eugenics movement took hold in the early twentieth-century. Under eugenics theory, it was irresponsible to care for and educate people with special needs as it would “weaken society”. Eventually, scientific approaches to studying disability, such as behaviorism, led to a new understanding of special education and the vision that all children could learn, no matter what diagnosis they were given.