CHCEDS051 - Facilitate learning for students with disabilities

Unit code: CHCEDS051 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
70
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Industry
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to work inclusively, and contribute to the planning and implementation of learning support strategies for students with disabilities. This includes ensuring that student health and safety is maintained at all times.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• undertake a process of reflection on working with students with disabilities and discuss that reflection on one occasion with an educational professional
• demonstrate inclusive practices in three different student interactions
• contribute to, and implement, support strategies for one student with a disability using collaborative approaches at each stage of the process.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• legal and ethical requirements for working with students with disabilities and how they impact individual work practice:
• access and equity
• anti-discrimination
• consent, in terms of an awareness and understanding of its meaning and strategies used to determine ability to consent
• confidentiality and privacy
• child protection
• duty of care
• safety and risk
• organisational policies and procedures for working with students with a disability
• potential impacts of own values, attitudes and experiences on perspectives about disability
• barriers and challenges for students with a disability
• inclusive practice:
• what it is and what it is not
• how to develop and consistently use it
• types of disability, the language used to describe them and their potential impacts on learning:
• acquired brain injury
• autism spectrum disorder
• cognitive disability
• developmental delay
• intellectual disability
• neurological impairment
• physical disability
• sensory disability
• speech-language disability
• principles of holistic and individual-centred care
• support strategies for different types of disability
• individual behaviour plans:
• what they are
• how they are developed
• how they are implemented and monitored
• ways to discuss the implications of an identified disability.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system. Students will be provided with two texts books to assist with their learnings: -Karen Kearns Supporting Education text book -English Grammar

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate IV in School Based Education Support
CHC40221 | Certificate iv | Duration:

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