The independent Department of Psychology and Teaching Children with Special Needs was established on 25 January 2009. Before then, the program of Psychology of Children with Special Needs was part of the Department of Psychology and the program of Teaching Children with Special Needs was a part of the Faculty of Educational Sciences. The educational and research activities of the department include these two subdisciplines. The department is running a Master’s program in Psychology and Teaching Children with Special Needs, enacted on 3 January 2009. The establishment of a PhD program was approved in the University on 13 November 2010 and is under study in the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.