Key:school:special_needs

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school:special_needs
Description
School for special-needs education
Group: education
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Useful combination
Status: in use

The tag school:special needs=* is used to mark schools for special-needs education

This tag was first used in the Belgian tagging conventions and was later adopted in other countries.

How to map

Add school:special needs=* to the element with education=school or amenity=school. The value denotes the kind whether the school is exclusively a special needs school or it offers special needs education besides regular education.

Tag Meaning Remarks Count
school:special_needs=yes School with facilities for special needs students. Please use a more descriptive tag.
school:special_needs=only School only for special needs students.
school:special_needs=separated School for both regular and special needs students. Both groups don't share classes.
school:special_needs=mixed School for both regular and special needs students. Both groups do share classes.
school:special_needs=limited School with regular education, but facilities for special needs students. Note that this tag may be redundant.
school:special_needs=no School without facilities for special needs students. Note that this tag may be redundant.

Specialization

Special needs schools often specialize themselves for a certain type of disability. This specialization may be indicated by the suffixed key special_needs:*=yes.

Tag Meaning Remarks Count
special_needs:intellectual_disability=yes For students with an intellectual disability.
special_needs:emotional_behavioural_disorder=yes For students with an emotional and/or behavioural disorder.
special_needs:physical_disability=yes For students with a physical disability.
special_needs:blind=yes For blind and visually impaired students.
special_needs:deaf=yes For deaf students and students with severe hearing loss.
special_needs:language_disorder=yes For students with developmental language disorder (DLD).
special_needs:autism=yes For students with autism spectrum disorder.
special_needs:learning_disabilities=yes For students with a learning disability not fitting one of the other categories (e.g. dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, ...).
special_needs:intellectually_gifted=yes For intellectually gifted students.


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