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ED50HP: AUTISM, INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:09


Course Overview

This course covers a range of conceptual issues fundamental to an understanding of autism in inclusive contexts. Participants will therefore develop a critical knowledge and understanding of policy, literature and research relating to the diagnostic criteria for autism, the key theories of autism, the main strategies used to support learners and the key themes and issues in the field. This will be linked to a critical knowledge and understanding of policy, literature and research on inclusion and issues around its meaning and enactment. The role of interprofessional collaboration and learner participation in facilitating inclusion is emphasised across the course.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Shannon Babbie

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Education (ED) (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course aims to deepen participant knowledge and understanding of the key conceptual ideas, theories and perspectives in autism, and the issues associated with autism and learning in inclusive contexts.

Topics will include: - The Inclusive Context
                               - Collaborative Working
                               - Perceptions and Myths
                               - Definitions 
                               - History
                               - Prevalence and Diagnostic Criteria  
                               - The Triad of Impairments
                               - The Causes of Autism 
                               - Psychological and Affective Theories of Autism
                               - Strategies, approaches and their evidence base

Course participants must have a commitment to the inclusion of learners with autism spectrum disorders and have access to an appropriate setting for the purpose of undertaking the assessment task and gaining practical experience.

  • This is an interprofessional course for practitioners from Education, Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector.
  • This is a ‘specialist’ course so all participants must have some knowledge and understanding of autism in order to undertake the courses
  • All participants must have access to a workplace for the purposes of the assignments which are all workplace-based.
  • All courses are online
  • Course 1 (ED50HP) must be taken before Course 2 (ED55HQ)

 


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Submit 18th Dec. 

Feedback 29th Jan.

Word Count 6000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionEvaluateReflect critically on current research and literature
ProceduralApplyCollaboratively plan and implement an intervention by applying theory to practice

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