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EDUCATION OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN AND YOUTH

 
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First writing.
Course aims and expectations
Simulation part 1.
Definitions.
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‘Attitudes and Behaviour’
Simulation part 2.
First guest.
Submission: All ‘first writings’ must be handed in.
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Projects: introduction.
‘Models of disability’
Second guest.
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Disability in Education: Introduction
Project options: Initial choices
Third guest
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Disability in Education: What can be done
Project choices made and outline submitted
Fourth guest
Visit to rehabilitation centre.
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Disability in Education: Turkish realities and possibilities.
Images: how do we come across, what do we chose, can we change images
Fifth guest
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Students to bring newspaper articles/photos
Media images of disability in the light of Models of Disability
Submission: Project progress report
Sixth guest
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Teacher Roles and Responsibility: the Social Model of Disability
Seventh guest
Transition: home-school, between schools, into university, into work
Photo collections -1-
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Support networks: involving family, peers and school staff
Language and body language that empower
Quality of life.
Photo collections -2-
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Assessment and testing: reasonable adjustments
‘Tipping points’
Photo collections -3-
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Poster presentations
Submission: Reflection paper
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Poster presentations
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Poster presentations.
Course review.
Submission: Project reports and Diaries
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Through meetings with disabled people, students revise assumptions about attitudes and behaviours, and challenge prejudice, in order to design suitable alternatives through cooperation with disabled people. Personal perspectives on disability: experience and feelings. Public and media perception: facts and figures. Models of disability, myths and reality. Current sources of support, criteria and aims, good practice, reasonable adjustments…