教育硕士（特殊教育）为教师提供了充分的准备，以在主流教室中为有特殊教育需要的个人提供支持，并填补了该领域教师在专业发展方面急需的空白。教育硕士（特殊教育）采用“设计思维”方法来分析具有一系列其他学习需求的人所面临的问题和挑战。特别是，本课程着重于从人为本的角度出发，借助高级理论知识来解决问题。
A Master of Education (Special Education) prepares educators to support individuals with a range of special educational needs in mainstream classrooms. This course highlights three distinct streams: Autism, Mental Health and Learning. These address the challenges and issues faced by mainstream teachers in mainstream educational practice. It fills a much-needed gap in professional development for teachers in the field. A Masters in Special Education thoroughly prepares educators to support individuals with a range of special educational needs in mainstream classrooms and fills a much-needed gap in professional development for teachers in the field. The course highlights three distinct streams. The autism stream provides you with advanced skills in supporting people with autism, the mental health stream focuses on mental wellbeing, with an emphasis on anxiety, depression and eating disorders, and the learning stream provides you with the experience to support people with a range of learning needs. This is not an accredited Australian Initial Teacher Education course and therefore does not qualify the student to teach in Australia.