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EDS 226 - Working with Disabled People, Fall 2006


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  Education of Exceptional Children and Youth

  Claire ÖZEL

  Department of Educational Sciences

  Course Structure: A 3-credit elective course EDS 226 gives Education Faculty students (in the first semester) and any 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… .

Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. Working with Disabled People. (2007, October 09). Retrieved October 08, 2008, from METU OpenCourseWare Project Web site: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/educational-sciences/education-of-exceptional-children-and-youth. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License