Syllabus/achievement requirements

SNE4200 - Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Education for Learners with Disabilities

All texts marked with an asterisk will be available in a compendium (SNE4200) which will be for sale from "Kopiutsalget" in Akademika bookshop, Blindern campus.

DVD material for obligatory group work: Department of Special Needs Education and InterMedia, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo (2008). Teachers for All. Part II Inclusive Education. [DVD material]

Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Education (Total pages: 911p)

*Capuzzi, David and Gross, Douglas R. (2004). Youth at Risk. Chapter 3. Resilience: Individual, Family, School, and Community Perspectives (pp. 35 – 68). USA. American Counseling Association. 33p

*Capuzzi, David and Gross, Douglas R. (2004). Youth at Risk. Chapter 4. The Impact of Family Dynamics on Children and Adolescents (pp. 69-92) USA. American Counseling Association.

Woolfolk, A, Malcolm, H & Walkup, V (2008): Psychology in Education. Pearson. Chapter 4. Learner Differences and Learning Needs (pp 129-184) 55p.

Woolfolk, A, Malcolm, H & Walkup, V (2008): Psychology in Education. Pearson. Chapter 5. Culture and Diversity (pp 185240) 55p.

Woolfolk, A, Malcolm, H & Walkup, V (2008): Psychology in Education. Pearson. Chapter 12. Creating Learning Environments(pp 523-572) 49p.

Woolfolk, A, Malcolm, H & Walkup, V (2008): Psychology in Education. Pearson. Chapter 13. Teaching for Learning (pp 573-616) 43p.

Teaching Learners with Disabilities:

Diversity in learning

*Capuzzi, David and Gross, Douglas R. (2004). Youth at Risk. Chapter 1. Defining Youth ar Risk (pp. 3-20) USA. American Counseling Association.

*Capuzzi, David and Gross, Douglas R. (2004). Youth at Risk. Chapter 2. Prevention and overview (pp. 21-34) USA. American Counseling Association.

Kirk, Samuel A. et. al. (2011). Educating Exceptional Children. Thirteenth edition. USA, Houghton Mifflin Company. Chapter 4. Children with Specific Learning Disabilities (pp 114 – 155). 41 p.

Socio-emotional conditions

*Capuzzi, David and Gross, Douglas R. (2004). Youth at risk. Chapter 5. “Who Cares What I think”: Problems of Low Self-Esteem (pp. 93-116) USA. American Counseling Association. 23 p.

Kirk, Samuel A. et. al. (2011). Educating Exceptional Children. Thirteenth edition. USA, Houghton Mifflin Company. Chapter 6. Children with Emotional and Behavior Disorders (pp 211–256). 45 p.

*Rye, Henning. (2005). The Foundation of an Optimal Psychosocial Development. In B. H. Johnsen (ed.). Socio-Emotional Support and Development of Learning Strategies (pp. 215 – 228) Oslo, Unipub - Oslo Academic Press. 13 p.

Sensory functions (vision and hearing)

Kirk, Samuel A. et. al. (2011). Educating Exceptional Children. Thirteenth edition. USA, Houghton Mifflin Company. Chapter 10. Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (pp 376 – 418). Chapter 11. Children with Visual Impairments (pp 419 – 468). 91 p.

Movement related functions and specific health conditions

Kirk, Samuel A. et. al. (2011). Educating Exceptional Children. Thirteenth edition. USA, Houghton Mifflin Company. Chapter 12. Children with Multiple and Severe Disabilities (pp 469 – 511). Chapter 13. Children with Physical Disabilities and Health Impairments (pp 512 – 557). 87 p.

*Curtin, M. & Clarke, G. (2005). Listening to young people with physical disabilities’ experiences of education. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 42, 3, 195-214. 16p.

*Heimdahl Mattson, E. (1998). Adjusted school environment for students with severe motor disabilities. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2, 3, 237-253. 16p

*Mattson, E. (1994). Disabled students’ experience of dependence and autonomy in integrated/segregated environments. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 9,2,119-124. 5 p.

*Nowicki, E. (2007). Children’s beliefs about learning and physical difficulties. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 54, 4, 417-427. 10 p.

Intellectual functions

Kirk, Samuel A. et. al. (2011). Educating Exceptional Children. Thirteenth edition. USA, Houghton Mifflin Company. Chapter 5. Children with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (pp 156 - 210. 34 p. Chapter 8. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (pp 294 – 325). 65 p.

Communication, speech and language

Kirk, Samuel A. et. al. (2011). Educating Exceptional Children. Thirteenth edition. USA, Houghton Mifflin Company. Chapter 7. Children with Communication Disorders in Speech and Language (pp 257 – 293). 36 p.

*Lyster, Solveig-Alma H. (2001). Language and Reading – Development and Disorders. Article in Johnsen, Berit H. & Skj?rten, Miriam D. (eds). Education – Special Needs Education: An Introduction. Oslo, Unipub. 13 p.

Warrick, Anne. 1998. Communication without Speech. Augmentative and Alternative Communication around the World. The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC). 85 p.

Mathematics and numeracy

*Askew, M. (2000) It ain’t (just) what you do: effective teaching of numeracy. In Tompson, I. (Ed.) Issues in teaching numeracy in primary schools. Open University Press, 12 p.

*Askew, M (2001) What does it mean to learn? What is effective teaching? In Anghileri, J. (Ed.) Principles and practices in Arithmetic teaching. Innovative approaches for the primary classroom. Open University Press, 13 p.

*Carr, M. & Hettinger, H. (2003) Perspectives on Mathematics Strategy Development. In Royner, JM. (Ed.) Mathematical cognition. Connecticut: Information Age Publishers. 36 p.

*Dowker, A. (2004) Children’s arithmetical difficulties. In Miles, TR. & Miles, E. (Eds.) Dyslexia and Mathematics. London: Routledge Farmer 12 p.

*Griffin, S. (2003) The Development of Math Competence in the Preschool and Early School Years: Cognitive foundations and Instructional Changes. In Royner, JM. (Ed.) Mathematical cognition. Connecticut: Information Age Publishers. 32 p.

*Geary, D.C. (2004). Mathematics and Learning Disabilites. Article in Journal of Learning Disabilites Vol. 37. No 1/2004: 4 – 15. 12 p.

*Ostad, Snorre A. & Peer M. S?rensen (2007). Private Speech and Stategy-Use Patterns: Bidirectional Comparisons of Children With and Without Mathematical Difficulties in a Developmental Perspective. Article in Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 40. No. 1/2007 2-14. 13 p.

*Ostad, Snorre A. (2001). Understanding and Handling Numbers. In B. H. Johnsen & M. D. Skj?rten, (eds.). Education – Special Needs Education: An Introduction (pp. 203 – 224). Oslo, Unipub. 21p.

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