sped
n.— «The pace of the program is quicker than anything we do and quicker even than our curriculum calls for. As a result, some sped students actually perform AHEAD of their non-special education peers in successfully handling contentalmost by definition becoming non-sped students!» —by Thomas A. Mulvihill in New Milford Public Schools Math Pilot Summary (New Milford, Connecticut) Apr. 10, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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