EDS 226 - Working with Disabled People

Education of Exceptional Children and Youth Claire ÖZEL Department of Educational Sciences Course Structure: A 3-credit elective course EDS 226 gives METU student (in the second semester) an opportunity to become more aware of Disability issues.

Course Description

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… .