This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
There is no set curriculum for this module. Learning and teaching will focus on consolidating the knowledge and skills developed through the other four Level 5 modules, and applying their learning to their workplace or comparable environment.
Total contact hours: 28
Private study hours: 572
Total study hours: 600.
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Foundation Degree
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities BSc
Positive Behaviour Support diploma
Main assessment methods
Project – 100%
Reassessment methods
Like-for-like
All indicative reading from the other Level 5 modules for the programmes to which this module is attached will be relevant to this module
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
8.1 Demonstrate, in their work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a critical understanding of the factors underlying
challenging behaviour.
8.2 Demonstrate, in their work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the use of individualised, functionally-based
assessment of challenging behaviour.
8.3 Demonstrate, in their work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the use of functionally-based interventions with
challenging behaviour.
8.4 Demonstrate, in their work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a local leadership role in the implementation and
evaluation of behaviour support plans.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
9.1 Have prepared written work which shows their capacity to draw on both published work and their own experience
9.2 Have demonstrated their ability to understand, and communicate both in written and spoken form, abstract concepts
9.3 Following a review of their practice, have implemented a local work-based personal and service development plan requiring them to work
collaboratively with service users, family carers and other practitioners
9.4 Have included and reflected on the achievement of objectives in their development plan, showing a capacity to improve and apply their
own learning
9.5 Have shown they are able to combine the demands of work and study by successfully meeting deadlines for the completion of academic
assignments
9.6 In the course of implementing their development plan, have identified and clarified problems and considered alternative strategies for
overcoming them
9.7 Have used information technology (word processing, email, internet use) in support of their development plan.
9.8 Have developed their numeracy skills through the use of quantitative measures of change in their personal and service practice.
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