Special Needs Education: Research and Practice

Education facts

Code: LPAGS1

The course comprises the following components: - central concepts, definitions and perspectives in the special education field - the emergence of special needs education as a research and practical field from historical, national and international perspectives - children's and pupils' varying needs in relation to special support - different ways to describe and define disabilities, including neuropsychiatric disorders - national and international curricula - the special needs teacher's and the special needs coordinator's areas of expertise - research and theory of the professional roles of the special needs teacher and the special needs coordinator.

Entry requirements

Admission to special needs teacher/special needs education programme

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Special Needs Education: Research and Practice

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %