Working with Sustainable Development Educational Goal for the Well Being of Children with Special Needs in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper seeks to map out the place of educating children with special needs in the
Sustainable Development Goals (MDGS). In doing this, the author provides the following
outlines-conceptual issues in SDGs, SDGs as a global agenda, integrating sustainable
development educational goal with special need, education, sustainable development goals
and inclusion agenda for children with special needs, challenges faced by children with special
needs in Nigeria. The paper then closes, with some recommendations on attempt to reposition
SDGs on special needs education moving it from a focus of quantity (enrollment figures) to
quality inclusion for all