Educating Students with Multiple Disabilities
PostgraduateTAS-EDP7122025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Educating Students with Multiple Disabilities
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Identify legislation, policy, and/or standards relevant to the education of students with multiple disabilities and describe their implications for educators.
- Analyse the educational and developmental needs of students with multiple disabilities.
- Design and evaluate educational programs for students with multiple disabilities.
- Design and evaluate strategies for collaboration in the planning, implementation, monitoring, and review of educational programs for individuals with multiple disabilities.
- Demonstrate the ability to critically engage with content to create knowledge, and to communicate concepts and ideas to an intended audience.
- Contribute to a professional learning community.
- Week 1: Designing collaborative educational services, and partnering with parents and families
- Week 2: An Inclusive Framework - UDL, Differentiation and MTSS
- Week 3: Educating Students with Physical Disabilities
- Week 4: Educating students with Sensory Disabilities (Vision, Hearing Impairment)
- Week 5: Communication as a foundation for Learning: Behaviour and Communication
- Week 6: Teaching communication and pre/early literacy skills – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Week 7: Educating Students with Special Health Care Needs
- Week 8: Integrating Educational Goals within Health Care and Nutrition
- Week 9: Adapting and Delivering the Curriculum - Part 1
- Week 10: Adapting and Delivering the Curriculum - Part 2
- Week 11: Alternate Assessment Practices
- Week 12: Transitions and Transition Planning
- Week 13: Importance of Strengths and Possibilities Mindset & Program Reflection
This subject is designed for educators with an interest in special and/or inclusive education. The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MYCEETYA, 2008) and the Disability Standards for Education (2005) make it clear that students with disability should expect that Australian schooling will enable them to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens. In this context, you will be required to independently research and analyse the theoretical and practical issues associated with educating students with multiple disabilities and complex health conditions. Building on your work in TAS-EMT603 Inclusive Practices in Education Settings, you will develop an advanced and integrated understanding of learning and teaching approaches to support this diverse population of students, recognising the need to tailor programs to individual students strengths and learning needs through collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches.
- Contributing to This Professional Learning Community (10%)
- Education Plan (50%)
- Critical Evaluation of an Individual Education Plan (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-EDN-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Education
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Education
PostgraduateTAS-EDN-GCE