Neuropsychological Disorders and Education in Practice, 15 ECTS
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This course is given as a commissioned education within the campaign for education of teachers by the Swedish
National Agency for Education (Government decision II:(8 Ministry of Education U2007/3168/S). The subject
area is special education.
- Overview of developmental functions necessary for learning (executive functions, memory, mentalisation, strategies for processing information, development of abstraction, concentration, etc).
- Developmental dysfunction – educational consequences.
- The concept of disability.
- Persons diagnosed within the autism spectrum- educational consequences and adaptations.
- Persons diagnosed with AD/HD, ADD – educational consequences and adaptations
- Persons with an intellectual disability – educational consequences and adaptations.
- Overview of other common syndromes in this area – educational consequences and adptations.
- Comorbidity – educational consequences and adaptations.
- Special educational strategies and adaptations from the more specific to the more common.
- The impact of disability on the family system.
- Collaboration with parents/families.
- Attitudes in the school environment and concrete work with spreading knowledge and positive attitudes and interactions.
- Overview of medical causes and of the support system in the Swedish society.
- Computers as an assistive device.
Area of interests: Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Law
Are you interested in human beings and society? How we function individually and together, what drives us, our learning processes, how rules and laws have been established, and how we interact with each other? If that is the case we have a lot to offer. This area of interest covers anything from Pedagogy, Psychology and Gender Studies, to Statistics, Political Science, Law and many other subjects. Their common denominator is the relation between human beings and society, independent analytical thinking and often an international perspective.