SPc610 Teaching of Pupils with SEN II - behavioral disorders and intellectual disabilities

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mgr. Barbora Bazalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. et Mgr. et Mgr. Věra Linhartová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Věra Vojtová, Ph.D.
Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Mgr. Ilona Fialová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
The final state examinination in the field of Special Education and associated fields is prerequisite for the course application.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to empower students competences in evidence based approach to the education of individuals with special educational needs. The emphasis will be given on behavior difficulties, intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders in the period of elementary and upper secondary education (in an inclusive and special school system).
Learning outcomes
• Student is competent and has evidence based approach to educational proccess of individuals with SEN – mainly in the behavioral difficulties/disorders, mild intellectual disabilties and autistic spectrum disorders,
• based on the acqured knowledge the student knows strategies for teaching target group,
• student will be able to define indiviudal EN and apply special educational strategies aimed to support and empowering competences in the target group.
Syllabus
  • Behavioral difficullties/disorders:
  • 1. Behavioral difficulties/disorders and its dynamics. Identification of the behavioral difficulties and disorders in the childhood.
  • 2. Etiology of behavioral disorders. Risk and protective factors – theory of resilience.
  • 3. School and classroom mangement (school and classroom rules, climat, team work.
  • 4. Case work on individual level – coping strategies for aggression in the classrooom, contracting, communication in the classroom, communication with the parents.
  • 5. Early identification at-risk children, assessment and intervention.
  • Education of pupils with slight mental disadvantage and disorders of autistic spectrum
  • 1. Educational needs of pupils with slight mental disadvantage and disorders of autistic spectrum, terminology starting point.
  • 2. Personal specifics of the pupils with slight mental disadvantage and disorders of autistic spectrum influencing educational process, specifics of cognitive processes and variability in development peculiarities.
  • 3. Didactic principles, methods, forms and resources in education of pupils with slight mental disadvantage and disorder of autistic spectrum.
  • 4. Methodology specifics of initial reading and writing in the education of pupils with slight mental disadvantage and disorders of autistic spectrum.
  • 5. Strategy in the learning of pupils with slight mental disadvantage and disorder of the autistic spectrum in the inclusive and segregated environment of primary and secondary schools.
Literature
    required literature
  • VALENTA, Milan, Jan MICHALÍK and Martin LEČBYCH. Mentální postižení. 2., přepracované a aktuali. Praha: Grada, 2018, 387 stran. ISBN 9788027103782. URL info
  • VOJTOVÁ, Věra and Karel ČERVENKA. Edukační potřeby dětí v riziku a s poruchami chování. Educational needs of children at risk and with behavioural disorders. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 193 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6134-7. info
    recommended literature
  • Soriano, V., Watkins, A., & Ebersold, S. (2017). Inclusive education for learners with disabilities. Brussels: European Union.
  • BARTOŇOVÁ, Miroslava. Inkluzivní didaktika v základní škole se zřetelem na edukaci žáků s lehkým mentálním postižením (Inclusive Didactics in Elementary School with Regard to the Education of Students with mild Intellectual Bisabilities). 2. dotisk 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 224 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6560-4. info
  • PIPEKOVÁ, Jarmila and Marie VÍTKOVÁ. Od edukace k sociální inkluzi osob se zdravotním postižením se zaměřením na mentální postižení (From education to social inclusion of people with health disabilities, focused on mental handicap). 1. dotisk 2. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 246 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7689-1. info
  • THOROVÁ, Kateřina. Poruchy autistického spektra. Vydání třetí, přepracov. Praha: Portál, 2016, 493 stran. ISBN 9788026207689. info
  • VÍTKOVÁ, Marie and Miroslava BARTOŇOVÁ. Vzdělávání se zaměřením na inkluzivní didaktiku a vyučování žáků se speciálními vzdělávacími potřebami ve škole hlavního vzdělávacího proudu. 3. dotisk 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, 279 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6678-6. info
  • ČERNÁ, Marie. Česká psychopedie : speciální pedagogika osob s mentálním postižením. Vydání druhé. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015, 222 stran. ISBN 9788024630717. URL info
  • BAZALOVÁ, Barbora. Dítě s mentálním postižením a podpora jeho vývoje (A Child with an Intellectual Disability and Support of his/her Development). Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2014, 183 pp. ISBN 978-80-262-0693-4. URL info
  • VOJTOVÁ, Věra. Kapitoly z etopedie I. Přístupy k poruchám emocí a chování v současnosti (Aspects of Special Education for Children with Behavioural Disorders. Current Approaches to Children with Behavioural and Emotional Disorders). 3. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 136 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6311-2. info
  • PETTY, Geoffrey. Moderní vyučování. Translated by Jiří Foltýn. Šesté, rozšířené a př. Praha: Portál, 2013, 562 stran. ISBN 9788026203674. info
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, Jaro. Psychologie pocitů štěstí : současný stav poznání. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2013, 131 s. ISBN 9788024744360. URL info
  • BAZALOVÁ, Barbora. Poruchy autistického spektra v kontextu české psychopedie (Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Context of the Czech Psychopedia). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 279 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5930-6. info
  • VOJTOVÁ, Věra. Inkluzivní vzdělávání žáků v riziku a s poruchami chování jako perspektiva kvality života v dospělosti (Inclusive Education with the Focus on At-risk Pupils and Pupils with Behaviour Disorder and the Quality of Life.). Brno: Press Muni, 2010, 330 pp. pedagogická. ISBN 978-80-210-5159-1. info
Teaching methods
Disscussions, reading and study of the literature in the field, analysis, comparison, seminar work, portfolio.
Assessment methods
Seminar works, oral exam - work with case studies, active participation and involvement in lessons
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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