Glossary of terms used on this site

Inclusion in education is an approach to educating students with special educational needs, spending most or all of their time with non-disabled students.

The movement of minority groups of a society into the mainstream of society.

Involuntary lack or reduction of human communication due to a medical condition.

Educational factors that include relationships, making sense and constructing knowledge, assuming roles in front of other, metacognition and individualities.

A disease, illness or injury; any physiologic, mental or psychological condition or disorder.

Each country has a set of guiding principles which guide and inform  the practices of teachers and local education authorities in terms of the education of children and students with medical needs.

Commonly associated with pronounced Developmental Delay with significant physical and sensory impairments and Epilepsy.

The process of enabling and assisting children and students who have been taught at home, in hospital or within a specialist school for pupils with medical needs, back to their 'school of belonging' or their mainstream school.