Special Education

Looking for articles within subject-specific databases may refine your searches and provide you with more relevant search results. The following list of databases may be good starting places for research and educational support related to topics in special education, but this list is not exhaustive:

Additional databases related to education can be found through the UTL Subjects A-Z research guide.

Key terms and related terms that you may want to include in your article searches:

• “special education” OR “special needs education” OR “inclusive education”
• “special needs students” OR “exceptional students” OR “students with disabilities”
• “assistive devices” OR “assistive technology” OR "adaptive technology"
• “developmentally disabled” OR “developmental disability”
• “learning disability”

​Also, consider alternative spellings of the following:

• “Down Syndrome” OR “Down's Syndrome”
• Asperger OR Asperger's
• counselling OR counseling
• behaviour OR behavior

(These lists were adapted from original lists of terms produced by Georgian College for developmental services workers.)

For more information about searching with Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) and using advanced search features like phrase searching and truncation, see UTL Boolean Operator FAQs.