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CHILDHOOD DISABILITY AND SOCIAL ACTION (THEORY)
Paper Code:
DHSC 513 (B)
Credits:
4
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
This course will enable the students to:
- Get acquainted with the various methods of studying characteristics and behavior in various handicaps.
- Get acquainted with the various methods of measuring the physical and intellectual capabilities of individual.
- Understand the problems of handicaps and their mainstreaming.
- Understand the assessment methods of various disability.
- Understand the role of society towards disability.
12.00
Unit I:
Understanding Disability and Inclusion
- Defining and understanding disability
- Rights of persons with disability and UNCRPD
- Perspective on disability: Individual and social
- Attitudes towards disability- family, school, society and media
- Classification
12.00
Unit II:
Types of Disability
- Identification, assessment and etiology with reference to:
Physical disabilities
- Sensory disabilities- Visual and auditory
- Autism
- Orthropaedicimpairement
12.00
Unit III:
Identification, Assessment and Etiology
- Intellectual disability
- Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
12.00
Unit IV:
Children with communication and learning disorder
- Communication Disability
- Learning disability
12.00
Unit V:
Disability and society
- Overview of practices and provisions related to addressing disability in India-inclusive education
- Prevention, therapy, education and management of various disabilities
- Disability and family
- Policy and laws
Essential Readings:
- Gedkar,E.Disabled in India,somaiya,1983.
- Lilly Stephen,M. Children with Exceptional Needs,Holt,Rinehart,1979
- CroockShank,W.M. Psychology of Exceptional Children and youth, "New Jersey,Prentice Hall", 1958.
- Baker,H.J.,Introduction to exceptional children,NewYork,Macmillan Co.,1959.
- Dunn,L.M.(ed) "Exceptional children in the schools", Holt Rinehart & Winston,1963.
- Kirk,S.A.Education "Exceptional children" Hinghton,Miffhir,1962.
- Heek,A.O., "Education of Exceptional children", New York,McGraw Hill,1953.
- Garrison,K.C.andForce,Dewy,G.thePsychology of Exceptional children,NewYork,fourthedition,theRonals Press Co.,1965.
- Frampton and Rowell,Education of the handicapped.
- Good enough,Florence,Exceptionalchildren,NewYork,appleton century Lnafhs,1956.
- Ellis,N.(ed) Hand book of Mental deficiency Psychological theory & Research.
- Long, N.J.; Morse, W.C. & Newman, R.G. (1980). Conflict in the classroom: The education of emotionally disturbed children. Belmont: Wadsworth.
- Educating Exceptional Children-An introduction to Special Education(2009),S.K.Mangal
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