Support for Secondary School Students with Special Needs

The article was part of the target research project Planning the Education Process - the Concepts of Curriculum Design, which examines the following two partial problems: support for, and organization of adaptations, and the implementation of individualized programmes (IP) for students with special needs (SN). The research sample comprised 131 Slovenian secondary school teachers who had students with SN in their classes and were provided additional professional support. We controlled the role of the type of school, type of impairment and teachers' training. Students with SN require most support in the areas of learning and motivation. This is particularly so for the students with learning difficulties and those with health impairments. Most teachers prepare special learning aids; when they need support for a student with SN, they cooperate with the school counselling service. The results show that the majority of students with SN do not participate in team meetings, and they also rarely make decisions about the IP learning objectives.