Children with Special Needs

Paper Code: 
ECE 331
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the student to-

  • understand past and existing status of child in Indian context
  • know about the needs of special children
  • provide practical solutions to common pre-school behavior problems
  • role of different organizations towards early childhood care for normal and special children

Impairment, Disability, Handicap: Concept & Definition

UN Charter of Rights of Person with Disabilities

Physical and health impairments- Orthopedic, neurological, cerebral palsy, spinabifida, limb deficiency, epilepsy, diabetes, asthama, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, AIDS

Visual impairment, legal blindness, Braille

Hearing impairment, sound, audiometry, degree, dactylology

Mental retardation

Communication disorder- speech disorder ( articulation, fluency disorder, voice disorder), language disorder- aphasia

Giftedness

Emotional disturbance

Autism

Learning disability

Unit IV: 
Rehabilitation Perspectives

Education for independent living

Job opportunities

Housing & residential facilities

Gender issues and disabilities

Integration – advantages and disadvantages

Prevention of disabilities- Techniques for pre natal assessment, chorionic villus sampling- fetoscopy, amniocentesis, ultrasound, maternal blood analysis, genetic counselling.

Counselling parents of children with special needs.

 

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.the Psychology 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.

 

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