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Title

Working with Children with Special Needs: Overview of Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities and Developmental Delay

Code

SDIS5189

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Duration

10.5 Hrs

Course Fee	Fee (excludes GST)	Fee (includes GST)
Course Fee (After 80% funding from VCF)	$56.00	$59.92
Course Fee (Before Funding)	$280.00	$299.60

Target Participants

Teachers, therapists, psychologists, social workers and other professionals working in preschools, special schools, Integrated Child Care Centres (ICCC) or other children centres.

Learning Objective

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
1) Describe atypical development in children
2) Discuss the diagnoses and basic characteristics of children with developmental delay, intellectual disabilities and multiple disabilities
3) Identify the difficulties and impact of the disabilities on the children’s learning and adaptive living
4) Apply basic teaching strategies to enhance the learning of the special needs individuals

Course Outline

1) Developmental milestones and atypical development in children with special needs
2) Intellectual disabilities (includes down syndrome)
- characteristics
- basic teaching strategies
3) Developmental delay (speech delay, motor development delay, global developmental delay etc)
- Characteristics
- Basic teaching strategies
4) Physical disabilities
- Characteristics
- Introduction to epilepsy
- Basic teaching strategies and considerations for accessibility
5) Multiple disabilities
- Definition of multiple disabilities
- Examples of multiple disabilities/ co-existing special needs conditions
- Considerations for teaching and accessibility

Trainer

Ms Faridah Ali Chang, B.Psychology, is a registered psychologist (Singapore) cum senior trainer/consultant with Rainbow Centre Training and Consultancy (RCTC). Her work as a psychologist with both Rainbow Centre Schools gave her extensive experiences in working with children with down syndrome, cerebral palsy, global development delay, multiple disabilities and autism particularly in areas of assessment and behaviour management. Ms Chang has been actively training preschool educators and professionals in the special needs area since taking on the role as a trainer in RCTC. Part of her work includes consultation with preschool educators and centres on disabilities and integration. She has also been invited to give talks on specific topics on special needs and other topics in teacher development.

Fee Remarks

Applicable to eligible NCSS member/ MCYS Funded VWO participants.

Enquiries

Naseem Begum / 62106667 / naseem_begum@ncss.gov.sg

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