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  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,872 Views
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Challenges Faced by Students with Special Needs in Primary Education during Online Teaching

  • Rafail Bachtsis,
  • Maria Perifanou and
  • Anastasios A. Economides

22 February 2024

This study investigates the psychological, educational, and technological difficulties faced by primary education students with special needs during online teaching. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was used for the qualitative analysis of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,540 Views
17 Pages

17 April 2025

This study explores the challenges of providing special education needs (SEN) education in impoverished regions of China. It proposes a hybrid education model that combines traditional and online education to address these challenges. In this hybrid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,912 Views
16 Pages

30 August 2022

Even though research focused on inclusive education in Romania for institutions within the primary and secondary education system has been carried out, there are not many studies that approach the factors determining a favorable inclusion of students...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,070 Views
18 Pages

5 August 2025

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, or Queer (LGBTQ) students with disabilities face unique challenges in the educational environment, and educators must provide support based on intersectionality. However, research on LGBTQ students in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,657 Views
27 Pages

7 August 2025

In the Swedish compulsory school system, multilingual students’ reading and writing development is supported, among other measures and practices, by heritage language (HL) teachers. To effectively support multilingual students, whether they req...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
949 Views
15 Pages

Unified Sports for Inclusive Education: Assessing Basketball’s Role in Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs—A Pilot Study

  • Mario Ruggiero,
  • Pietro Montesano,
  • Leopoldo Ferrante,
  • Cristina Mennitti,
  • Olga Scudiero and
  • Filomena Mazzeo

This pilot study evaluates the effectiveness of basketball, implemented according to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and educational best practices, as an inclusive tool for students with Special Educational Needs in lower secondary sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,738 Views
16 Pages

Teachers’ Opinions towards Educational Robotics for Special Needs Students: An Exploratory Italian Study

  • Silvia Di Battista,
  • Monica Pivetti,
  • Michele Moro and
  • Emanuele Menegatti

16 September 2020

Research reveals that robotics can be a valuable tool for school students with special needs (SNs). However, to our knowledge, empirical studies on teachers’ attitudes towards educational robotics for SNs students have been very limited and, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,511 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2025

The Good Behavior Game (GBG) is a practical and evidence-based classroom management strategy that requires minimal time and resources to learn and implement. This study investigates the effectiveness of the GBG in reducing disruptive behaviors among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,421 Views
19 Pages

24 April 2024

The modalities of schooling and the educational measures for students with special educational needs (SENs) are postulated as important aspects within the field of study of inclusive education. The general objective of this research is to analyse the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,159 Views
18 Pages

21 April 2023

Several studies have investigated the perceptions of inclusion by students with special educational needs (SEN) and without SEN, most of them quantitatively. This research aims to expand the understanding of the perceived inclusion of students throug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,384 Views
13 Pages

Background: The aim of the study was to compare the level of self-confidence in dealing with problems at school, the attitude towards bullying situations and the recommended strategies to cope with bullying in two samples of pre-service teachers (PST...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,666 Views
19 Pages

This study aimed to investigate the use of a structured learning outcomes approach for fifth-grade mathematics instruction, with a focus on students with difficulties in learning mathematics, across two mainstream schools in Kuwait. Three special edu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,897 Views
18 Pages

28 March 2024

This study investigates parents’ perceptions on school management practices for children with special educational needs in a small-sized Indonesian school. Data from surveys and interviews with 53 parents revealed overall positive attitudes tow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,314 Views
14 Pages

Internet Use by Secondary School Students: A Digital Divide in Sustainable Societies?

  • Francisco Javier Ballesta Pagán,
  • Josefina Lozano Martínez and
  • Mari Carmen Cerezo Máiquez

16 October 2018

Although the use of the Internet is generalised, its potential as a teaching tool is rarely taken into account. At the same time, there exists a digital divide affecting vulnerable or disadvantaged groups: students of foreign origin and students with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,142 Views
23 Pages

Perceptions of Primary School Children About the Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers in Co-Taught Classrooms

  • Aglaia Stampoltzis,
  • Eleni Peristeri,
  • Katerina Antonopoulou,
  • Dimitrios Zbainos and
  • Antigoni Boti

1 October 2025

Classrooms have become increasingly diverse worldwide. Respect for diversity, including the participation of students with disabilities/special educational needs in all aspects of school life, has made the need for adopting an inclusive education mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,076 Views
15 Pages

Accountability in education is an important legal, professional and ethical consideration for all teachers in their practice, as it leads to deep reflections about educational outcomes for their students. However, in respect of inclusive education, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,472 Views
29 Pages

24 October 2025

This study, by analyzing processes taking place in physical education (PE) lessons, sought to identify how traits of self-confidence and intrinsic motivation developed in pupils with special educational needs (SEN). The research employed a micro-ethn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,804 Views
20 Pages

With the growth in popularity of video games in our society many teachers have worked to incorporate gaming into their classroom. It is generally agreed that by adding something fun to the learning process students become more engaged and, consequent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,491 Views
15 Pages

4 July 2023

The purposes of this study were to describe the learning outcomes of students with disabilities in senior high school, to establish a model to explain the effects of personal, family, and school experience factors on the learning outcomes of students...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,784 Views
12 Pages

22 November 2022

The implementation of Educational Robotics (ER) with special needs students (SNS) has been found to be helpful for knowledge improvement, by keeping students engaged and decreasing the risks of social exclusion. The present study aimed to investigate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
10,771 Views
18 Pages

Sustainability of Inclusive Education in Schools and Higher Education: Teachers and Students with Special Educational Needs

  • Anna Shutaleva,
  • Nikita Martyushev,
  • Zhanna Nikonova,
  • Irina Savchenko,
  • Vladislav Kukartsev,
  • Vadim Tynchenko and
  • Yadviga Tynchenko

7 February 2023

One of the significant factors in the sustainability of education is the development of inclusive education. An inclusive educational space implies openness and accessibility of education for students, regardless of their educational needs. Inclusive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,954 Views
8 Pages

4 October 2023

Improving education provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Barbados is the focus of this article. It takes into account the wider historical and educational context and uses a whole education approach to conduct the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,113 Views
25 Pages

16 September 2025

Based on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which emphasizes inclusion and equality of education for all, the number of university students with special educational needs (SEN) is increasing worldwide. Universities are increasingly faced wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,745 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2025

Children’s safety, well-being and inclusion in the school environment can be severely impacted by social isolation and bullying. This study examined these threats in a sample of 14 group-classes (291 students) from four different primary educat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,877 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2024

This research aims to discover how inclusive education practices can determine the happiness and school satisfaction of students with physical disabilities through the development of self-concept. To achieve the objective of this study, quantitative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,325 Views
14 Pages

21 December 2024

Despite inclusive education being high on the agenda of educational systems worldwide and part of international legislation and policy, particularly the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which emphasises inclusion and equality as the basis for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,768 Views
20 Pages

Examining the Suitability of the List of Indicators Describing Age-Related Typical Support Needs

  • Antonio M. Amor,
  • Miguel A. Verdugo,
  • Benito Arias,
  • María Fernández and
  • Alba Aza

The list of indicators is a form of training material used for the Supports Intensity Scale—Children’s version (SIS-C). It is aimed at helping interviewers distinguishing between extraordinary and age-related typical support needs in chil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
10,709 Views
20 Pages

Augmented Reality as a Sustainable Technology to Improve Academic Achievement in Students with and without Special Educational Needs

  • María Graciela Badilla-Quintana,
  • Eileen Sepulveda-Valenzuela and
  • Margarita Salazar Arias

1 October 2020

Virtual reality has impacted education, where progressively more educational institutions consider its inclusion. The research problem derives from the need to study the educational possibilities provided by integrating augmented reality into the cur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,638 Views
9 Pages

The study had four objectives: (a) identifying and characterizing strategies for involving parents of students with SEN (students with special educational needs) in remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) comparing these strategies with th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,606 Views
14 Pages

30 November 2024

This study analyzes the perceived improvement in literacy skills among 2nd-grade Primary Education students, both with and without Special Educational Needs (SEN), following the implementation of Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLGs) during the COVID-1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,847 Views
18 Pages

Inclusive education emphasizes the right of all students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), to access equitable learning opportunities in mainstream classrooms. This study presents the implementation and evaluati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,004 Views
12 Pages

Peer Rejection and Academic Performance in Early Childhood: The Mediating Role of Special Educational Needs of Spanish Students

  • Luis J. Martín-Antón,
  • Paula Molinero-González,
  • Miguel Á. Carbonero-Martín,
  • Wendy L. Arteaga-Cedeño and
  • José Luis Rodríguez-Sáez

17 August 2024

Peer rejection occurs at all stages of education, including infant education, and entails serious consequences, both immediately and in the future, in all areas of children’s development. This study aims to gain insight into the link between pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,276 Views
18 Pages

20 October 2021

Given the pandemic-induced school lockdown in Germany in the spring of 2020, COVID-19 evidently had a negative impact on child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing. However, there is no evidence regarding the specific problems of students with...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3,385 Views
25 Pages

Inclusive Education aims to ensure equitable learning opportunities for all students, including those with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities, by promoting accessible teaching practices and supportive learning environments. Although its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,940 Views
22 Pages

21 July 2025

Despite progress in inclusive education, students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) often lack valid, tailored tools for career assessment, limiting equitable transitions to adulthood and employment. Closing this gap is crucial for Sustainable Dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,226 Views
15 Pages

The present study focuses on investigating the contribution of puppetry as a pedagogical and psychosocial tool in special education, addressing the literature gap in the systematic documentation of the experiences of special education teachers, conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,188 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2021

Research on teachers’ perceptions about diversity is key to understanding the different approaches to be implemented to build inclusive education. Within this framework, the perceptions and attitudes of 73 students in the Mathematics specialization o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,809 Views
19 Pages

Future Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions towards Inclusion in Secondary Education: University of Granada

  • Emilio Crisol-Moya,
  • María Jesús Caurcel-Cara,
  • Paula Peregrina-Nievas and
  • Carmen del Pilar Gallardo-Montes

25 February 2023

Designing and implementing inclusive practices is considered one of the basic actions for the construction of inclusive education. Actions depend largely on teachers’ attitudes, which can be modified by the training they receive. This study ana...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
18,758 Views
17 Pages

19 October 2023

Self-regulation plays a crucial role in the overall well-being of students, including those with learning disabilities (LD) and social, emotional, and behavioral disorders (SEBD). Conceptually, digital learning offers great potential for supporting s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,395 Views
12 Pages

Participation of Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in Extracurricular Activities in Compulsory Education

  • Macarena Castellary-López,
  • Victoria Figueredo-Canosa,
  • Juan Rafael Muñoz-Muñoz and
  • Luis Ortiz-Jiménez

11 April 2023

Within the R + D + I project “Study of the educational response to students with Specific Need of Educational Support hereinafter (SEN) associated with disability”, one of the areas analyzed covers extracurricular and complementary activi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
12,628 Views
17 Pages

2 January 2019

The basis of the study is the findings of scientific research dealing with experiential reflections of university students studying in the special education Bachelor degree study program in Lithuania. The special educator is a teacher of children wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,865 Views
19 Pages

How Can Social Capital Become a Facilitator of Inclusion?

  • Anett Hrabéczy,
  • Tímea Ceglédi,
  • Katinka Bacskai and
  • Gabriella Pusztai

19 January 2023

Students with special educational needs are a diverse group. Promoting their learning success is particularly challenging, even in practice for inclusive schools. At the same time, parents are often left alone with diagnosis and treatment. Therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,343 Views
10 Pages

The school-age population of students is becoming increasingly more culturally and linguistically diverse. There is mounting recognition that English Learners (EL) represent a unique group of students who have special educational and linguistic needs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,300 Views
8 Pages

Making public school accommodating of all learners such that the need for special education is obviated, or at least reduced, has long been a desideratum of educators. Various strategies for making general public education more accommodating of stude...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,888 Views
14 Pages

Triennial Evaluations: Divorcing the Means from the Ends

  • Frederick J. Brigham,
  • Christopher M. Claude and
  • John William McKenna

Confusion among stakeholders regarding some aspects of the special education process—chiefly the triennial reevaluation—leads to misapplication of rules across districts and states based on interpretations of informal lore-based reasoning. Local educ...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,303 Views
19 Pages

Students with special needs often require more assistance and attention to meet their educational needs. However, schools frequently grapple with a critical shortage of special education teachers and support staff. This shortage of special education...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,330 Views
12 Pages

Exploiting Augmented Reality Technology in Special Education: A Systematic Review

  • Andrianthi Kapetanaki,
  • Akrivi Krouska,
  • Christos Troussas and
  • Cleo Sgouropoulou

21 September 2022

In this systematic review, research works pertaining to the use of augmented reality (AR) in special education are investigated. In recent years, the introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education has transformed the teac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
22,246 Views
13 Pages

Inclusive Vision Versus Special Education Reality

  • James M. Kauffman and
  • Garry Hornby

22 September 2020

The reasons are examined for the disparity between the inclusive vision espoused by Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the reality of the limited extent of inclusion in education systems worldwi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
19,471 Views
10 Pages

22 February 2021

The purpose of this article is to review recent literature on twice-exceptional students and consider implications for their education in the context of the trend towards increased inclusive education for students with disabilities. The review focuse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,659 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2022

This paper airs the experiences of eighteen students with special educational needs completing their studies at a Finnish vocational institution, which has a mandate to provide intensive special support for the students. It contributes to the nationa...

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