Assessment and understanding of the meaning, foundation, goals, aspects of self-development of children with special needs (self-efficacy, self-esteem, personality, cognitive, socio-emotional, psychosocial, behavior, moral, character, self-concept, communication, intrinsic motivation, independence , self-regulation, problem solving, creativity, life skills, self care, activities of daily living and other ABK self-development) and theories underlying ABK‘s self-development, the relationship between multiple intelligences and ABK‘s self-development, ABK‘s self-development methods, assessments and development programs themselves (including: aspects to be developed, objectives, media, materials, tools, time, place, steps, evaluation, follow-up), special programs for children with special needs (blind children, deaf and speech impaired, mentally retarded, physically disabled, autistic, and children with other special needs), evaluation of self-development programs for children with special needs, implementation of theories related to the self-development of ABK in learning practices and research on ABK. Lectures are carried out using a project based learning model