BA Special Educational Needs and Disability
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 A level: BCC T Level: Merit BTEC: DMM GCSE: GCSE Maths and English Grade 4/Grade C (or above) or equivalent qualification Access to HE: Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 with a minimum of Distinction: 15, Merit: 24, Pass: 6 English language: IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)
About this course
BA (Hons) Education, focusing on special educational needs and disability (SEND). Core topics include Research Methods and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme incorporates two placement stages in different SEND contexts, and concludes with an independent dissertation at Level 6.
Modules
- Placement Learning and Professional Development
- Introduction to SEND: from Exclusion to Inclusion
- Engaging with Employability Skills and Practice: Placement 1
- Issues and Debates in SEND
- Comparative Perspectives in SEND
- The History of SEND: Past to present
- Personal, Professional and Academic Skills for the SEND Practitioner
- Exploring Cognition and Learning Needs
- Exploring Communication and Interaction Needs
- Exploring Sensory and Physical Needs
- Exploring Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs
- Developing Employability Skills and Practice: Placement 2
- The SEND Professional: Roles and Contexts in SEND
- Dissertation: Literature Review
- Concepts of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Research and Practice
- Social Exclusion and SEND: Research and Practice
- Creativity and Innovation in SEND: Research and Practice
- SEND: Live Project
- The Inclusive Classroom: Research and Practice
- Identity, Inclusion and Living with Disability: Research and Practice
- Autism: Research and Practice
- Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties: Research and Practice