Special secondary education

Special secondary education is divided into types:

• Type basic range: children with a slight mental disability and children with learning difficulties. 
• Type 2: teenagers with a moderate or severe mental disability
• Type 3: teenagers with severe emotional or behavioural issues
• Type 4: teenagers with a physical disability
• Type 5: teenagers admitted to a hospital or a preventorium
• Type 6: teenagers with a visual disability
• Type 7: teenagers with a hearing disability
• Type 9: teenagers with a disorder on the autism spectrum, without mental impairment

Four forms of training are available for young people from various types:

• Training form 1: social education
  This form of training provides social training with a view to integration into a sheltered living environment.
• Training form 2: social education and preparation for work
  This form of training provides a general and social education and work training with a view to integration into a sheltered living and working environment.
• Training form 3: vocational education
  This form of training provides social education and vocational education with a view to integration into an ordinary living and working environment. Various courses are organised.
• Training form 4: general, vocational, art and technical education
  This form of training prepares for higher education studies or into the working world. The study programmes correspond to the study programmes in ordinary full-time secondary education.