Special Education

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The classes, theoretical and practical, will have the contribution of the teacher and students.
The teacher: explanation of the program contents; promotion of practical and reflection activities illustrating programmatic topics; student orientation in the research, construction and exploration of various materials; support in carrying out student work projects.
Students: participation in practical activities and reflection triggered in class; exhibition of dissertation and research papers; construction and exploration of various materials, analysis and case-oriented resolution in the light of the models discussed.
The assessment will comply with the regulations applicable to the course. The continuous assessment scheme will include two individual written tests (75%) and elements of continuous information (work done, attendance, participation, involvement…) (25%). Exam assessment is ugly through written exam.

The curricular unit (CU) of Special Edcuation aims to provide an overview to future educators/teachers of children and young people requiring a different educational attention.
At the end oft this CU students must:
– Get to know and understand the current philosophy of educational and social inclusion of children with special educational needs (SEN’s) as well as the fundamentals that justify them;
– Display attitudes consistent with existing forms of perspective the issue of education of children with SEN’s in the spirit of collaboration with other professionals and close connection with the family;
– Mastering the key legal standards applicable to school inclusion of children / students in the Portuguese education system;
– Being able to characterize the main frames of exceptionality covered in this discipline;
– Be able to plan and implement, critically and consciously, forms of education adjusted to these individuals.

Keywords: special educational needs; special education; inclusion; global development problems; motor problems; intellectual disability; learning problems; giftedness
1.Brief History of Special Education
2. From integration to inclusion
2.1.Concept and fundamentals of integration
2.2. The inclusion; Principles, policies and practices in the field of special needs education
3. Legal documents supporting the insertion work of children / students with SEN.
4. Parents and family with children with SEN
4. Some disturbances and main features; intervention processes
4.1.Developmental and Global Disorders: The Particular Case of Autism
4.2Motor problems: the particular case of cerebral palsy
4.3.Intellectual Inability: Trisomy 21 and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
4.4.Learning Problems: Difficulties and Disorders
4.5.The giftedness
(If feasible, other issues will be adressed)

• - Exam - 100.0%

• - Attendance and Participation - 25.0%
• - Frequency - 75.0%

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