Volume 13, Issue 2A and 2B, 2025

Navigating Special Education Needs in the Face of Poverty

Denis Emeana & Afuoh Joseph

Abstract

This article first provides a contextual framework of navigating special
education needs in the face of poverty, this framework shows that there are
certain negative (harmful) effects of poverty on special educational needs
outcomes. A review of the empirical evidence suggests that the negative
effects cause the most harm to the educational outcomes of the poor, girls,
younger children, and children with more siblings. Therefore, to effectively
and efficiently navigate special education needs in the face of poverty,
educational interventions such as conditional cash transfer, school meal, fee
reduction, media campaigns, block grants and teachers’ motivation are likely
to have the greatest effect if they are targeted towards these vulnerable groups.

Keywords

Navigation, Poverty, Special Education Needs.

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