Course

Intellectual Disabilities - EDST5111

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Education

Course Outline: School of Education Course Outlines

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Enrolment in one of the following Education programs 1970, 2354, 2359, 7960, 8910, 8926, or 8960

CSS Contribution Charge: 1* (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The course focuses on the life-span of people with intellectual disabilities. The main areas that will be addressed in the course are characteristics of intellectual disabilities (including issues of definition), assessment for intervention, educational practices (highlighting evidence-based practices), and curricular models, possibilities of employment and independent living, and aging. The area of social and community inclusion, peer and partner relationships of people with IDs, as well as society attitudes towards people with IDs and also attitudes of these people towards society will be explored.


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