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Special Needs Teacher
OFO Code: 235201
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 235201
- Occupation
- Special Needs Teacher
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2352 · Special Needs Teachers
Official description
Special needs teachers teach physically or mentally handicapped children, young persons, or adults, or those with learning difficulties or other special needs. They promote the social, emotional, intellectual and physical development of their students.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Teacher of Gifted Students, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Special Needs Teacher, Augmentative and Alternative Communication Special Education Teacher, Education Therapist, Remedial Teacher, Visual Impairment Special Needs Teacher, Skills and Vocational Special Needs Teacher, Neurological and Neuro-Development Special Education Teacher, Rehabilitation Teacher, Behaviour Support Teacher, Chronic and Mental Health Special Needs Teacher, Behaviour Management Special Needs Teacher, Special Education Teacher (Mentally / Physically Handicapped), Autism Special Education teacher, Cognitive and Impairment Special Needs Teacher, Physical Impairment Special Education Teacher, Learning Support Teacher
- Conferring with students, parents, head teacher and other relevant professionals involved in the students’ care to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' development
- Establishing and enforcing rules for behaviour and policies and procedures to maintain order among students
- Administering various forms of assessment and evaluating progress of each student
- Assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional impairments, exceptional intellectual gifts, or other specific problems
- Preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports
- Designing or modifying curricula and preparing and delivering programmes, lessons and activities adapted to students’ abilities and needs
- Teaching academic subjects, and practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, sight and other impairments
- Stimulating and developing students’ confidence interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination
- Employing special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory
- Giving instruction on an individual or group basis using special techniques or aids appropriate to students’ needs
- Conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.