Special education is training as an inseparable subsystem of the unified public, free of charge, educational system. It is the supply of special training services to students with or without disabilities that have ascertained special needs which is complimented by the occasionally necessary medical and social means.

            The aim of special education is to help the personality of students with disabilities and special educational needs, develop and enable them to have an, as possible, more autonomous participation in the personal, family, professional, cultural and social life.

            Under the shadow of this aim it pursues:

a)     The whole sided and harmonic developments of the personality of students with disabilities and special educational needs with respect to their individualities.

b)     The improvement and exploitation of the possibilities, abilities and dexterities so that their placing in the common school is made possible whenever and whenever that is feasible.

c)      The equivalent to their abilities, placing in the educational system, social life and professional activity.

d)      Their professional training and their participation in the productive process.

e)     The mutual acceptance and harmonic mingling with society and the equal social development.

E.E.E.E.K   KATERINIS

                       VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF KATERINI

                        GREECE

EEEEK Katerinis is a vocational school which is preparing students with
special needs aged between 14 and 22 years for the insertion in the labour
market.

 The programme of the school contains units of general lessons
(language, maths, etc) and laboratories of cooking, gardening, autonomous
living and candle making.

As the students are starting to study at EEEEK
they begin the training in the laboratories area. By the end of the
training, they are going to be qualified in the professions they were
trained for.

 Please, see below the list on the students' special needs:
- menthal disability;

- physical disability;

- autism;

- psychological, emotional and social deficit.

The most difficult part of their studies is the definition of the profession
they can do. So, the school has to provide good guidance, with the
assistance of the specified teacher of guidance. Another problem is the real
insertion of the students in the Labour Market.