CYP5232 - Children with Additional Needs: Diversity & Inclusion

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Summarise the development of diversity and inclusion policy and legislation in respect of children and families;
Explain different forms of social exclusion and how these might impact upon children’s opportunities and development;
Analyse inclusive practice techniques;
Identify a diverse range of additional needs that children might have and services which may support them.

Content:

This module aims to develop student awareness of the vulnerabilities that children may experience, considered ‘additional needs’. The module will deepen understanding of the child in different social contexts. It is intended that students consider social exclusion and diversity from a wide sociological perspective, considering how these might impact upon people in many different circumstances and across the life course.

Students will examine how issues of diversity and social exclusion affect children and families within their communities and cultures as well as school based contexts.

Key themes include:
• How policy and legislation has changed along with social awareness of diversity;
• How professionals and parents can identify early needs and support methods used;
• The impact of diversity and SEN on an individual child’s development and learning;
• Diversity issues such as gender, giftedness, ethnic diversity and disability;
• Planning for the inclusion of different children in a range of practice settings;
• Learning difficulties;
• Physical impairments;
• Behavioural and social/emotional disorders.

Students will be encouraged to consider how additional needs might shape ‘identity’ and how services are configured to work with such identities.

Learning and Teaching Information:

This module will be taught using a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, some of which will be student-led. Students could be expected to prepare for the sessions by reading set texts and completion of tasks set in class or via the VLE and will be expected to take part in a wide range of learning activities.

Students may be required to prepare and present brief presentations as the basis for discussion in seminars or workshops.

Lectures, seminars and workshops
Hours: 30
Intended group size: Cohort

On-line support and small group tutorials
Hours: 1 (min)
Intended group size: 6-10

Guided independent study
Hours: 169

Other relevant matters
The Planning Activity involves a simulation of what practitioners must consider in order to enable children with additional needs to fully participate. Students will be required to complete this exercise in small groups, although the submission will be individual.

Assessment:

001 Essay 2,000 words Semester 1 – week 5 50%
002 Planning Activity 1,000 words Semester 1 – week 12 25%
003 Evidence of Co-operation in planning Activity 1000 wrd or equiv Sem 1 – week 12 25%


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