Education for disabled people (called special education) is a responsibility for both parents and public authorities.
Each country establishes its own structures/institutions according to its cultural and educational values in order to
help both handicapped and normal persons. The aim of this paper is to make an exploration of the special education
situation in Burundi. The determination of different services offered to disabled people, the extent to which
handicapped people are served and current laws on special education are aimed. In this research, content analysis
and semi-structured interview were used. The content analysis allowed a review of existing literature on
handicapped persons’ law and for the semi-structured interview, an interview form was prepared and used to collect
informations from administrators of centers for handicapped people. The results showed that Burundi has no special
education legislation, no legal classification principle, and no statistics of handicapped persons. Other results are
that special education in Burundi is offered in centers of phyisically, mentally, visually, and hearing impaired
persons, which are theoretically under the solidarity ministry. Services that are provided are mainly physical
rehabilitation, professional training, literacy, and general education.