ABSTRACT
Teachers have a special responsibility and many achieve a great deal with those they teach. Many teachers are rightly concerned that the integration of pupils with special needs will make life in the classroom very much more difficult and create problems for other children, particularly the most able. The comprehensive school ideal involves providing as fully as possible for all children. This ideal is increasingly difficult to uphold in a climate where the effect of competition for pupils gradually comes to affect schools more and more. Much of the problem is that children who have very individual needs, whether these stem from learning difficulties or exceptional ability, take up the teacher's time because of the need to find out what they can do and what they understand before setting them to work. Computer revolution can stimulate and develop skills in many children and already special schools and units are finding a tremendous number of uses for the new technology.
