NKPD code: 2352
Special needs teachers teach children, young people or adults with physical or intellectual disabilities, learning difficulties or other special needs, promoting their social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. Special needs teachers perform the following main tasks: • assessing students' abilities and limitations in relation to intellectual, physical, social and emotional disabilities, exceptional intellectual abilities or other specific problems; • developing or modifying curricula, preparing programmes and conducting lessons and activities adapted to students' abilities and needs; • instructing individuals or groups using special techniques or aids appropriate to students' needs; • applying special educational strategies and techniques during teaching to improve the development of sensory and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition and memory; • establishing and enforcing rules of behaviour, policies and procedures for maintaining order among students; • teaching subjects, practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, visual or similar impairments; • stimulating and developing students' confidence, interests, abilities, dexterity, skill and coordination; • consulting with other staff members to plan and prepare teaching schedules for persons with special educational needs; • preparing and maintaining student records and submitting reports; • introducing various forms of assessing and recording each student's development; • consulting with students, parents, head teachers and other professionals to develop individual education plans to promote students' development. Examples of occupations in this unit group: – Teacher, resource – Teacher of children with language and speech disorders – Teacher of children with intellectual disabilities – Teacher, auditory-verbal rehabilitator for children with hearing impairment – Teacher of children with visual impairment Excludes: – Teacher, practical training – 2320 – Teacher, theoretical training – 2320 – Teacher, general education subject at upper secondary level – 2330 – Teacher, general education subject at lower secondary level – 2330 – Teacher, primary stage of basic education (grades I–IV) – 2341