The purpose of this thesis is to emphasize the importance of using collocations as a tool for more successful English language acquisition and more fluent and natural speech. Creating a list of collocations related to children with special needs is a small contribution to more successful education of preschool teachers for the purpose of accomplishing a higher common goal, which is to provide better conditions for the growth and development of children. This is especially important for those children who differ in some aspects of development from their peers, and who are often placed at a disadvantage. The following special needs are briefly described in this thesis: reading difficulties, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome. Nowadays, thanks to advances in the accurate diagnosis of special needs, and therefore an increased number of diagnosed children, a significant number of experts are showing interest in dealing with this topic. One of the foundations of any profession, especially of preschool education, is professional development and lifelong learning, which implies constant work on oneself and one’s skills in order to acquire new knowledge and become more successful at implementing this knowledge in practice. Since one of the main tools in that work is the professional literature, most of which is written in English, this thesis analyses collocations in fourteen scholarly articles related to special needs. For the same reason, this thesis also provides a small glossary, listing some of the most common terms related to special needs with their equivalents in the Croatian language.