Diploma in Techniques d'éducation spécialisée at Cégep de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Canada is a diploma in Special Education programme. The programme runs for 3 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,150 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
Techniques d'éducation spécialisée (351.A1) is a three-year technical DEC at Cégep de Sherbrooke, admitting students in the fall term, that trains specialized educators to intervene with people of all ages facing emotional, physical, intellectual, social, or behavioural difficulties. The curriculum covers designing and carrying out intervention projects and both individual and group activities across prevention, education, adaptation, and rehabilitation, building skills to support people in shared-living contexts at home, in public or private institutions such as schools and rehabilitation centres, or through community organizations. Field placements form part of the training, and some placement settings may require a background check before a student can be accepted. Typical practice settings named on the program page include integrated health and social service centres, school service centres, early childhood centres, respite resources, youth shelters, and street-work or community organizations serving people from childhood to old age. The program suits people who are sensitive to the wellbeing of others, committed to their community, interpersonally skilled, open-minded, and adaptable. It is positioned alongside the related Techniques de travail social program, with which it shares some subject overlap while focusing more specifically on direct, hands-on intervention work.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This programme page only points to Cégep de Sherbrooke's general admission conditions, administered through SRAM (admission.sram.qc.ca). Domestically that requires a Diploma of Secondary Studies (DES), or a record the Cégep judges equivalent (including studies completed outside Quebec); DES holders from before 2010 or the adult-education stream are still admitted but must complete levelling activities (mise à niveau) for any missing language, second-language or mathematics units by their first or second session. International applicants apply via SRAM as an International Candidate and, unless they are French citizens, must submit a French-language test result meeting Sherbrooke's own minimums: Bright Canada average 3.7, TCF tout public 484, DELF tout public B2 75.7, DALF 50, or TEF 479/699. Éducation spécialisée (351.A1) states no further course prerequisites or particular admission conditions of its own beyond these general requirements.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM), which also covers cégeps outside the Montreal region: Winter 2027 entry opens 15 September 2026, with a round-one deadline of 1 November 2026 and a round-two deadline of 25 November 2026; Fall 2027 entry follows SRAM's recurring round-one deadline of 1 March 2027, though the cégep's site has not yet posted a dated row for that cycle (its Fall 2026 table is marked as closed). International applicants follow a separate SRAM timeline, confirmed directly on the cégep's site: Fall 2027 applications run from 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027, and Winter 2028 applications run from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is not open-ended rolling, but SRAM runs successive rounds for as long as places remain. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
