Children with Special Needs

Paper Code: 
ECE331
Credits: 
2
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

 

15.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

Impairment, Disability, Handicap: Concept & Definition

UN Charter of Rights of Person with Disabilities

20.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

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

20.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

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

Giftedness

Emotional disturbance

Autism

Learning disability

20.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Rehabilitation Perspectives

Education for independent living

Job opportunities

Housing & residential facilities

Gender issues and disabilities

15.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

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.

 

References: 

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.

 

Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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