USPQK029 Counseling and Intervention for Children and Pupils with intellectual disabilities and ASD

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
9/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PaedDr. Irena Johanka Savková, MBA (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kateřina Janků, Ph.D.
Institute of Special Education – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Andrea Silberová
Timetable
Fri 22. 11. 8:05–13:00 C208, Fri 6. 12. 8:05–10:30 C208
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(N) && FORMA(K) && ROCNIK(2)
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 subject is to equip students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the area of counseling and intervention for children and pupils with mental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders, with a focus on the specifics of this counseling at the school counseling workplace and in the school counseling facility.
Learning outcomes
Expertise:
- the student can characterize the definition, forms, areas, goals of special pedagogic counseling, the concept and its interdisciplinary character
- the student knows how to use an interview as a basic counseling method, knows the principles and course of an counseling interview
- the student reads the principles and phases of the counseling process, the breakdown of the counseling process, the characteristics of the phases of the counseling process, continuity and procedures applied in the individual phases
- the student can describe the system of counseling in education, staffing, focus of care, legislative norms, standard activities
- the student knows counseling services for children, pupils with special educational needs
- the student can assess the role and form of counseling in the comprehensive rehabilitation system
- the student knows career counseling strategies, can define the role of a career counselor, the content and methods of intervention within career counseling
Specific expertise:
- the student can explain the methods and principles of individual special pedagogical diagnosis of students with mental disabilities for the purpose of determining support measures
Professional skills:
- the student can define counseling aimed at individuals with mental disabilities and cognitive impairment, institutions providing counseling from early age to adulthood, diagnosis, intervention
- the student can define counseling aimed at individuals with autism spectrum disorders, institutions providing counseling from early age to adulthood, diagnosis, intervention
- the student is able to define counseling aimed at individuals with simultaneous disabilities with multiple disabilities, institutions providing counseling from early age to adulthood, diagnosis, intervention
- the student can participate in the creation of school educational programs, individual educational plans, pedagogical support plan
- the student can apply appropriate methods of communication when cooperating with legal representatives of children and pupils with mental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders
Specific professional skills:
- the student can independently apply special pedagogical diagnostic procedures aimed at pupils with special educational needs and especially at pupils listed in § 16, paragraph 9 of the School Act, with a focus on working with pupils with mental disabilities
- the student can independently apply special pedagogical methods and interventions for students with mental disabilities
- the student can provide special pedagogical advice in the field of education, re-education and compensation procedures for students with mental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders
General qualifications:
- the student is able to reflect on experiences from his/her own teaching practice and use reflection as a tool for professional learning
- the student is able to cooperate constructively in solving special pedagogical problems with other experts in the team
- the student is able to provide special pedagogical advice in solving problems in the development and education of children, pupils with mental disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders
- the student is able to independently formulate and present the achieved results, or reflect them in their daily practice
Syllabus
  • 1. Special education consultancy, definitions, forms, areas, goals. Concept, interdisciplinary character, legislative framework, prescribed documentation
  • 2. Principles and phases of the counseling process, breakdown of the counseling process, characteristics of the phases of the counseling process, their continuity and procedures applied in individual phases
  • 3. Methods of counseling work, basic breakdown - diagnostic and intervention methods
  • 4. The emergence and development of the consulting system in the Czech Republic. System of counseling in education, staffing, focus of care, clientele, legislative norms, standard activities, legal form
  • 5. School counseling office, composition of the counseling team, organization of activities, competence of individual members of the school counseling office.
  • 6. Counselor personality, competence, code of ethics, prevention of burnout syndrome, importance of supervision
  • 7. Interview as a basic method of counseling - principles and course of counseling interview, conditions
  • 8. The role and form of counseling in the comprehensive rehabilitation system
  • 9. Vocational counseling – the role of a career counselor, pre-professional counseling, institutions providing vocational counseling, content and methods of intervention within the framework of vocational counseling
  • 10. Counseling aimed at individuals with mental disabilities and impaired cognitive performance: institutions providing counseling from early age to adulthood, diagnostics, interventions
  • 11. Counseling aimed at individuals with autism spectrum disorder, institutions providing counseling from early age to adulthood, diagnosis, intervention
  • 12. Counseling aimed at individuals with simultaneous disabilities, institutions providing counseling from early age to adulthood, diagnostics, interventions
Literature
    required literature
  • BASLEROVÁ, P., MICHALÍK, J., FELCMANOVÁ, L. a kol. Katalog podpůrných opatření pro žáky s potřebou podpory ve vzdělávání: obecná část. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2020. ISBN 978-80-244-5717-8.
  • HANÁK, P. a kol. Diagnostika a edukace dětí a žáků s těžkým zdravotním postižením. Praha, IPPP ČR, 2005. ISBN 80-86856-10-0.
  • KUCHARSKÁ, A. a kol. Obligatorní diagnózy a obligatorní diagnostika ve speciálně pedagogických centrech. Praha: IPPP ČR, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86856-42-1.
  • THOROVÁ, K. Poruchy autistického spektra. Praha: Portál, 2016. ISBN 978-80-262-0768-9.
  • VALENTA, M., MÜLLER, O. Psychopedie. Praha: Parta, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7320-290-3.
    recommended literature
  • ČERNÁ, M. a kol. Česká psychopedie: speciální pedagogika osob s mentálním postižením. Praha: Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-3071-7.
  • KATZ, J. Resource Teachers: A Changing Role in the Three-Block Model of Universal Design for Learning. Winnipeg: Portage & Main Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-55379-501-8.
  • VALENTA, M. a kol. Katalog podpůrných opatření pro žáky s potřebou podpory ve vzdělávání z důvodu mentálního postižení nebo oslabení kognitivního výkonu: dílčí část. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2020. ISBN 978-80-244-5715-4.
  • VALENTA, M., MICHALÍK, J., LEČBYCH, M. a kol. Mentální postižení. Praha: Grada, 2018. ISBN 978-80-271-0378-2.
  • VALENTOVÁ, L. a kol. Školní poradenství II. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7290-629-1.
    not specified
  • BARTOŇOVÁ, M., VÍTKOVÁ, M. et al. Intervence v inkluzivní edukaci dětí, žáků a studentů se zdravotním postižením a jejich pracovní uplatnění. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013. ISBN 978-80-210-6515-4.
  • KULHÁNKOVÁ, R. Pedagogicko-psychologická problematika znevýhodněných žáků a možnosti intervence. Ústí nad Labem: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7414-321-2.
  • OPATŘILOVÁ, D. ed. Pedagogicko-psychologické poradenství a intervence v raném a předškolním věku u dětí se speciálními vzdělávacími potřebami. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006. ISBN 80-210-3977-9.
  • OPATŘILOVÁ, D., NOVÁKOVÁ, Z. et al. Raná podpora a intervence u dětí se zdravotním postižením. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012. ISBN 978-80-210-5880-4.
  • OPATŘILOVÁ, D., NOVÁKOVÁ, Z., VÍTKOVÁ, M. et al. Intervence u dětí se zdravotním postižením v raném věku: texty k distančnímu vzdělávání. Brno: Paido, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7315-240-6.
  • DOSTALOVÁ, E. Poradenství a intervence u dětí a žáků s mentálním postižením a PAS. In E-learning kurz pro studenty studijního programu Speciální pedagogika Fakulty veřejných politik v Opavě. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě.
Assessment methods
Preparation, implementation and presentation of a project focused on processing the counseling and intervention process, which is carried out by a special pedagogue in a school counseling workplace or in a school counseling facility for a selected pupil with mental disabilities or autism spectrum disorders within the framework of inclusive or segregated education. The presentation of the prepared project is a condition for granting credit.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Personal contact in lessons, consultation hours. During ongoing studies, the student uses study support and processes selected correspondence tasks. Here, at the same time, he will demonstrate his knowledge of compulsory literature and contact teaching lectures. The student will be able to continuously consult individually studied subject topics via e-mail, individual or group consultations. The subject has an e-learning course prepared in IS SU and a team established in MS Teams, which also serves as another possible tool for communication with the teacher and between students.
The course is also listed under the following terms Accreditation winter.
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