In just about every classroom, teachers find students with a wide range of
exceptionalities — students with one or more learning problems, students with various degrees of English language proficiency, students with different interests, students who are very advanced, and students without a «label» but
whose learning needs are just as unique.
An exceptional child is «A pupil
whose behavioural, communication, intellectual, physical or multiple
exceptionalities are such that the pupil is considered to need a placement in a special education program