HUMAN NEEDS

What are human needs?

• Every human being has requirements to be met
rather provided to use to enjoy human rights and
freedoms.
• The human requirements rather needs can be
described as basic needs and general
(supplementary) needs
• The basic needs include food, clothes and
shelter that stand as necessities and the luxury
needs (luxuries) that are supplementary that
most of the persons can do without.
 CATEGORIES OF HUMAN NEEDS

 NECESSITIES
• The basic needs/requirements that include food,
clothes and shelter that stand as necessities that
one can not do without for living
• As a human right, we all need
• food for good health
• clothes and shelter for protection and security
• facilities for
• recreation and leisure
• education
 CATEGORIES OF HUMAN NEEDS
 SUPPLEMENTARY OR LUXURIES
• The general needs/requirements that stand
as supplementary or luxuries that most of
the persons can do without.
• Nevertheless, we are entitled to be provided
with such things to enjoy recreation and
leisure and communication as a human
right
 SPECIAL NEEDS
Whether basic needs or luxuries can further
be special in terms of their specific/unique
purpose in human beings
• Special needs for good health
• Special needs for protection and
security
• Special needs for recreation and leisure
• Special needs for education
 SPECIAL HUMAN NEEDS

SPECIALNEEDS
(HUMAN RIGHT)

RECREATION PROTECTION EDUCATIONAL

HEALTH
& LEISURE & SECURITY (learning)
NEEDS
NEEDS NEEDS NEEDS
 SPECIAL NEEDS cont…..
• The provision of the needs encourages
individual to access rights and freedoms to
good health, protection, recreation and
education respectively.
• The name of the purpose for particular needs
becomes the name of the category of needs ie
special health needs, social needs or
educational needs
• Once, the responsibles fail to provide the
needs the violation of human rights and
freedoms occurs
 EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
• Requirements that a learner should use
to access right to education
• General Educational Needs are
requirements that every learner uses to
access quality education in schools
• Special Educational Needs are
specific requirements for learners to use
to reduce difficulties in learning to
access quality education in schools.
 EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

EDUCATIONAL
NEEDS

SPECIAL GENERAL
EDUCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL
NEEDS NEEDS

CLASSROOM DAILY LIVING RECREATION CLASSROOM RECREATION

LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND LEISURE LEARNING AND LEISURE
 SPECIAL NEEDS
(Requirement)

ACADEMIC
ADL
(SEN)

ABSTRACT CONCREAT ABSTRACT CONCREAT

 LEARNERS WITH DISABILITIES

Two major categories of learners

with disabilities
 Learners with sensory
impairments
 Learners with Learning
Difficulties
 LEARNERS WITH DISABILITIES

 Learners with sensory impairments include those

with
• Visual Impairment
• Hearing Impairment
• Deafblindness
 LEARNERS WITH DISABILITIES
 Learners with Visual Impairment
• Who are Blind
• Who are low vision
 Learners with Hearing Impairment
• Who are Deaf
• Who are Hard of Hearing
 Learners with Deafblindness
• Who are more Deaf than Blind
• Who are more Blind than Deaf
• Who are with equivalent amount of Deafness and
Blindness
 Learners with Learning Difficulties
• Learners with Physical Disabilities
• with Health Impairments
• with Intellectual Disabilities
• with Emotional Behaviour Disabilities
• with Gifted and talentedness
• with communication difficulties
• with Autism
• Who are marginalised/disadvantaged
 Learners with Learning Difficulties
• Learners who are
marginalised/disadvantaged
• Girl learners
• Orphans
• Learners from broken families
Learners with Physical Disabilities
• Dwarfism
• Giantism
• Cerebral Palsy
LEARNERS WITH HEALTH IMPAIRMENTS
• Diabetes
• Asthma
• Obesity
• Sickle Cell Anaemia
• HIV & AIDS
• Epilepsy
• Mental Ill
LEARNERS WITH INTELLECTUAL
DISABILITIES
• Downs Syndrome
• Hydrocephalus
• Down’s Syndrome
• Autism (Autistic Spectrum Disorder)
LEARNERS WITH EMOTIONAL
BEHAVIOURAL DISABILITIES
• Conduct Disorder
• ADD
• ADHD
Gifted and Talentedness
• Those with giftedness
• Those with talentedness
• Those with High self motivation
• Those with high level of creativeness
LEARNERS WITH
COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES
• Stammering Difficulties
• Stuttering Difficulties
• Fluency Difficulties
Learners with Learning Difficulties
The marginalised/disadvantaged following experiencing
different handicaps
• Women
• Children
• Orphans
• Elderly
• Refugees
• Neglected