defectology
nounEtymology From defect + -ology.
1
In the former Soviet Union The training of teachers of handicapped children.
- Training in orthopedagogics started as a global course without division into types of handicaps while training in defectology started with profound study of auditive handicapped children and was influenced greatly by a German system of special education with profound specialization according to a handicapping condition.2000, Jan de Groof, A New Framework of Special Education in the Russian Federation:
- Derived terms
- defectological