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| Post Graduate Diploma |
Year module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English |
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| Purpose: Many learners with disabilities are excluded from active participation in school activities because of doorways that are too narrow for wheelchairs; steps that cannot be mounted leading to buildings and light switches that cannot be reached; and, sanitary facilities that cannot be used. Similarly they can be excluded by other types of barriers, for example oral communication which ignores the needs of the hearing impaired and written information which ignores the needs of the visually impaired. Such barriers are the result of ignorance and lack of concern; they exist despite the fact that most of them could be avoided at no great cost by careful planning.
This module will provide teachers and other professionals with theoretical and practical ways of reasonably accommodating learners with disabilities so that they fully participate in the teaching and learning activities without hindrances. To the extent that reasonable accommodation efforts are successful in bringing about better access and equal opportunities, the prospects of marginalising and discriminating against learners with disabilities, greatly improve.
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