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MINOR GROUP 234: SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHING PROFESSIONALS
 


    Special education teaching professionals teach physically or mentally handicapped children, young persons or adults, or those with learning difficulties, at a given level of education.

    Tasks performed usually include: adapting curriculum to suit the particular group of mentally or physically handicapped persons, or those with learning difficulties; teaching one or more subjects to, for instance, deaf or blind persons by using braille, lip-reading and other special aids and techniques; preparing reports. Supervision of other workers may be included.

    It should be noted that, depending on the specific tasks and degree of responsibility in executing them, as well as on the national educational and training requirements, it may be appropriate to classify some or all of the occupations that are identified here into Minor group 333, Special education teaching associate professionals.

    Occupations in this minor group are classified into the following unit group:

    2340 Special education teaching professionals

   
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 Updated 10 August 2004, by VA.