ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the essentials of every kind of education, i.e. the teachers, the schools, and the relationships and links between the parents and the homes, and the teachers and the schools. Teachers working in the field of special education, no matter what the handicap of the children in their care, must have certain objectives. The importance of ‘teacher expectation’ upon results has been experimentally demonstrated, and the factor is no less valid when dealing with the particular group of children. The separate special classes give the teachers-in-charge freedom to plan their own programme. They are small and therefore intimate in character and should enable the teachers and parents of the children attending to work together very closely. The teacher of the class, although in charge of the special class, is also a member of the staff of the school and responsible to the Head of that school.
