Title: Lesson Ten: Learners with exceptional needs
Course: EPS 201: PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING (B)

Purpose of the topic/week/section:

The purpose of this topic is to equip you with knowledge and skills to enable you understand  various categories of learners with exceptional needs,  be sensitive to their needs during the teaching learning process and apply appropriate strategies that may help them exploit their full potential.

Intended learning outcomes:

At the end of this topic, you will be able to:

1. Describe the strategies for adapting instruction for the gifted and talented learners
2. Propose strategies for adapting instruction  for students with learning difficulties
3. Explain strategies for adapting instruction  for the physical and sensory challenged learners
4. Summarize strategies for adapting instruction  for learners  with psychosocial challenges

Over to you:

We are likely  to come across learners with exceptional needs in our regular classrooms. In the past, public schools did little to educate these children, but today, many governments have ensured that learners with exceptional needs have free and appropriate education, and are increasingly getting educated in regular classrooms. The term  learner with exceptional needs refers to all those learners who deviate from what is supposed to be average in physical, mental, emotional or social characteristics to such an extent that they require special education services in order to develop their maximum capacity (Henry, 1950).