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Special schools; information on assistance according to special focus

Pupils with special educational needs receive targeted support in the context of education and lessons or in remedial lessons in order to compensate for developmental delays or other obstacles.

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Regierung von Oberbayern

Street address

Maximilianstraße 39
80538 München

Hinweis: Wir empfehlen eine vorherige Terminvereinbarung bei persönlichen Vorsprachen

Postal address

80534 München

Regierung von Oberbayern

Street address

Maximilianstraße 39
80538 München

Hinweis: Wir empfehlen eine vorherige Terminvereinbarung bei persönlichen Vorsprachen

Postal address

80534 München

Procedure details

Support is based on a child's special educational needs, e.g. in the areas of learning, language, emotional and social development, intellectual development, hearing, vision and, if necessary, further support needs such as in the autism spectrum, if special educational needs exist at the same time. Children with multiple special educational needs attend the school that can best meet their needs. A distinction is made between special schools with the following specialisms:

  • Focus on vision,
  • Hearing specialization,
  • Focus on physical and motor development,
  • Focus on mental development,
  • language support,
  • Focus on learning,
  • Emotional and social development.

Schools providing special educational support for the above-mentioned special educational needs are support centers with the respective special educational needs. Schools for special educational needs that include the special areas of language, learning and emotional and social development are special education support centers. Classes for the sick can be attached to special schools. The other special schools bear the name of the corresponding general school with the addition "for special educational support" and the indication of the focus.

The special schools include

1. special education centers with classes of the

  • Primary school level with grades 1 to 4, whereby the classes in grades 1 and 2 can be run as special educational diagnosis and support classes and can be extended by a grade 1 A if the diagnosis and support measures for grades 1 and 2 require a third year of school attendance (except for the special focus of mental development); in schools with the special focus of vision and hearing, grade 1 A is compulsory,
  • Secondary school level with grades 5 to 9 and, if intermediate maturity classes can be formed, also with grade 10, whereby grades 7 to 9 can be trained as special educational diagnosis and workshop classes at special educational support centers and at special schools with a focus on learning in preparation for vocational training,
  • Vocational school level with grades 10 to 12 at schools with a special focus on intellectual development, whereby the vocational school level also fulfills the tasks of the vocational school for pupils with this special focus. The vocational school level can also be formed at special education centers with a focus on vision, hearing or physical and motor development,

2. other general education schools for special educational needs,

3. vocational schools for special educational needs.

Status: 10.07.2024
Editorial responsibility Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus
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