Special Educational Needs and Disability

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse the concepts, theories and issues of policy related to special educational needs in a systematic way.
• Articulate your own approaches about special educational needs, social justice and inclusion.
• Use your knowledge and understanding critically to develop your position personally about policies, practices and processes related to special needs provision.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the values and principles behind special needs provision and processes and their historical evolution.

• An introduction to SEND: Policy and provision
• Processes of inclusion and exclusion for students with SEND
• The models of disability
• Voices and perspectives of students, teachers and others
• International perspectives on special and inclusive education
• Universal design for learning and person centred planning
• Diversity, attitudes and human rights
• Learning support assistants
• Becoming more familiar with specific SENDs through personal research
• Sharing of knowledge of a particular SEND

Typically, the module is taught in a mixture of lecture and seminars sessions.

Teaching comprises seminars, lectures, student presentations, group and class discussions, posing and responding to questions and further reading/research around a variety of topics.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Individual Oral Presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Informal Oral Feedback from Tutor and Peers is given on the formative presentation.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.