NCTE (National Centre for Technology in Education) - ICT and Special Needs Autistic Spectrum Disorders

ICT and Special Needs – Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Title	ICT and Special Needs – Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Duration	20 hours
Pre-requisites	Introductory Course Phase 1 or equivalent experience Ideally, participants will also have completed Introductory Course Phase 2 or have equivalent experience.
Target Audience	This course is intended specifically for teachers of students with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) in mainstream primary education, special or outreach classes and special schools.
Contents	The course is intended to provide teachers with information on ICT use to support students with ASD, the confidence to introduce it into their own classes and specific strategies, tools and resources to use in the integration of ICT into the curriculum. Course objectives: explore ways in which ICT can be used to support individual students' needs provide exposure to on-line resources/software which the teacher can use to support those needs learn about the use of these resources and strategies to assist with their integration into the curriculum learn about different uses of ICT, such as the use of ICT to assist in language development and communication focus on a topic of particular interest to the participant through a project in a supported environment