Academic Schoolarship Journals Volume 2 No. 3, Sept. 2010

This paper examined counselling for special need populations in Nigeria. Concepts of counselling and special need populations were examined. National educational goals as indicated in National Policy on Education (2004) were enumerated. Importance of counselling the special need populations was highlighted. Personnel involved in counselling the special need populations were enumerated to include: school administrators, guidance counsellors, teachers, learners, supervisors of schools, government and parent teachers’ association. Problems militating against counselling for the special need populations were enumerated to include: late identification of the special need populations by the school, lack of the knowledge of the miracle counselling of the special need populations can do and lack of orientation and re-orientation. Recommendations were made such as: teachers and school administrators should identify special need populations early enough, awareness should be created by the government on the importance of counselling the special need populations.