CHILDHOOD DISABILITY AND SOCIAL ACTION

Paper Code: 
DHSC 513 (B)
Credits: 
04
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

 

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018
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