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ED4890:03
Inclusive Education for Special Needs
Please check prerequisites in Master Schedule.
20 hours lectures, 18 hours tutorials. Semester 1 (Townsville, Cairns campus; External). December/January block mode for GradBEd (Primary) students only.
Core subject for all final year teacher education students.
Dr P Pagliano (Townsville campus );
Dr J Taylor (Cairns campus).
This subject provides preservice teachers with opportunities to develop skills for the recognition and appropriate inclusion of students with special needs in regular school programs (either early childhood education, primary or secondary). Students with special needs are those who require some form of curriculum and/or environment modification in order to participate in the regular classroom in a meaningful way. Students with special needs include those with gifts and talents, learning or emotional/behavioural difficulties or impairments (intellectual, speech and language, vision, hearing and physical). Students wishing to study this subject off-campus should ensure that they are able to access Web-based material. Information on requirements is available from the School of Education.
critically analyse issues related to the education of students with special needs: normalisation, delabelling, integration, inclusion, legislation, policies, appropriate education (both age and level appropriate), quality of life;