Week 7: Special Education: Students with Learning Challenges
Students with Learning Challenges
• There are several kinds of problems that interfere with learning. Before we continue let’s analyze the difference between disability and a handicap.
• Disability: The inability to do something specific such as walk or hear.
• Handicap: A disadvantage in a certain/particular situation, sometimes caused by disability. Handicap any physical/mental defect that prevents/restricts a person from participating in normal life (limiting the capacity to work)
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Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction to Educational Psychology
- Week 2: Intelligence, Single or Multiple and Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory
- Week 3: The Triarchic theory of intelligence,Components of Creativity,Emotional Intelligence and its Components
- Week 4: Intelligence: David Wechsler’s Tests, Principles of Test Construction, Reliability, Validity Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence and Cognitive Styles
- Week 5: Special Education, Mental Disabilities and its types
- Week 6: Special Education: Dyslexia, Mental Retardation and Gifted, Talented and Genius
- Week 7: Special Education: Students with Learning Challenges
- Week 8: Special Education: Speech and Communication Disorders
- Week 9: Mid Term Exam
- Week 10: Learning: Pavlov & Classical Conditioning
- Week 11: Learning: Operant Conditioning and Difference between Classical and Operant Conditioning
- Week 12: Learning: OtherTypesof Learning and Observational Learning
- Week 13: Motivation and Cognition
- Week 14: Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory: Sensorimotor Stage and Preoperational Stage
- Week 15: Jean Piaget: Concrete Operational Stage and Formal Operational Stage
- Week 16: Evaluation & Classroom Management
- Week 17: Guidance and Counselling
- Week 18: Final Term Exam
- Chapters 18
- Department Psychology(SCB)
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Muhammad Asim
