Meeting Specific Education Needs

The subject Attention to Specific Educational Needs in Primary Education belongs to the Basic Training module, within the general training of the Primary Education Degree, assigning it 6 ECTS credits and located in the 2nd course, second four-month period. This subject belongs to the area of Didactics and School Organization and focuses the development of its contents on offering future professionals of this educational stage, a better understanding, in terms of identification, prevention and care and educational support in accordance with the special educational needs of students in centers and classrooms, within the general framework of the school curriculum. This subject contributes, within the Primary Education Degree, to develop the ability to value diversity as a natural fact and to integrate it positively in the classroom and to give an inclusive response to the special educational needs of its students.
This subject is related to other disciplines such as: Management and innovation in educational contexts; Learning difficulties and developmental disorders: evolutionary characteristics; Practicum I; Practicum II; Final Degree Project.

Course will consist of 60hrs of in class work and 90 hrs of independent work outside the classroom.