- Overview of terminology and development of discourse in special education

- Profiling personalities of the field

- Historiography of the field and its subfields, periodization of the development of people with disabilities in the Czech Republic

- Definition of special education as a scientific and study field and its position in the system of sciences

- Important legal norms and current legislation governing the status of people with disadvantages (children, pupils, students)

- Current international trends in the support of people with disadvantages

- State policy of support for people with disabilities

- The issue of employing people with disadvantages, their current position in the labor market

- The importance of the non-profit sector and activities of non-governmental non-profit organizations