Помогите ответить на вопросы In every school system there are pupils who deviate markedly from so called “normal children”. Today all “special” children are called the children with special educational needs. That term includes the various types of physically handicapped children such as: the crippled, the blind and the partially sighted, the deaf and the hard of hearing, the deafened, the speech defectives (logopaths), the children with special health problems, the emotionally disturbed and the mentally retarded. There are two more groups in the American classification – the mentally gifted and the children presenting serious behavior problems. The education of the children with special educational needs in Russia is a part of the State Educational System. A few months after the Revolution of 1917 the State took upon itself the care of the children with special educational needs. With universal compulsory education, special education became a necessity. Since then retarded children have been cared for and educated in the so-called auxiliary schools, while blind, deaf and physically handicapped children have attended corresponding special schools; children with nervous and mental disorders have been cared for in sanatoria-schools, convalescent schools and other special establishments of the Ministry of Health. This network of special establishments has been under constant improvement. 1. What does the term “children with special educational needs” imply? 2. When did special education begin in Russia? 3. Where is special education held? 4. Is the system of special education independent from the state?