COURSE UNIT TITLE

: VISUALLY IMPAIRED INFANTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN AND RELATED INTERVENTIONS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖEP 6020 VISUALLY IMPAIRED INFANTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN AND RELATED INTERVENTIONS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Special Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BURAK KARABEY

Offered to

Special Education

Course Objective

students who want to work with Visually impaired babies and small children, children's overall development patterns and gain knowledge and skills in developing intervention programs

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The impact of the development and learning of the sense of sight,
2   developmental processes in children with visual impairment (motor, cognitive skills, social, language, self-care, independent movement and orientation, intelligence, personality)
3   developed for visually impaired children and their families with early intervention programs

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Eyesight: definitions, anatomy, physiology, the importance of development and learning, eye diseases
2 Infants and young children with visual impairment impact on family
3 Development of visually impaired children: motor development, cognitive development (small muscle intelligence)
4 Visual impairment in children with development: social development, language development
5 Visual impairment in children with growth: self-care, independent movement and orientation
6 Early intervention for children with visual impairment and their families
7 Early intervention for children with visual impairment and their families
8 Early intervention for children with visual impairment and their families
9 MidTerm Exam
10 Discussing a comparative approach of early intervention
11 Student presentations
12 Student presentations
13 Student presentations
14 Student presentations
15 Final Exam
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 +ASG* 0.10 + FCG* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 6 5 30
Preparation for final exam 8 5 40
Preparing assignments 2 5 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 174

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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