12498 (v.3) Ed 615 - Learning Difficulties

Area:	School of Education
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	9443 (v.11) Learning Problems in the Classroom 414 or any previous version AND 308226 (v.2) Ed 536 - Managing Learning Problems in the Classroom or any previous version
Syllabus:	Definition of learning difficulties. Theoretical models. Recognition of early childhood, primary, secondary and adult learners with learning difficulties. Diagnostic assessment procedures, psychometric standards, selection, administration and interpretation. Design and implementation of intervention strategies and programs. Mainstreaming and classroom management strategies. Collaborative approaches, parental involvement and sources of further referral and support in the community.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	070300 Curriculum and Education Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 2			Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External