Summary
The current educational context requires professionals who can support students with special needs (Autism Spectrum Disorder, giftedness, intellectual disability, sensory or motor deficits, reading and writing difficulties, etc.) seeking their maximum integration.
The Master in Special Education is designed so that you acquire the skills for early detection of learning difficulties and define, evaluate and develop intervention strategies and techniques. Likewise, it prepares you so that you can guide the teaching teams of an educational center to respond to the educational needs of their students.
Curriculum (Key Aspects)
- Evaluation and psychopedagogical intervention
- Attention to diversity
- Neuroeducation
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- New technologies applied to educational intervention
- Early care and psychopedagogical intervention
- High Capacities
- Intellectual disability
- Learning strategies
- Students with motor deficits
- Intervention in students with visual deficits
- Intervention in students with hearing deficits
- Intervention in difficulties in the acquisition of oral language
- Intervention in difficulties in the acquisition of reading and writing
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What You Will Learn
- You will analyze the causes that alter the learning processes to adjust the psychopedagogical attention required by each child with special needs.
- You will evaluate each learning difficulty detected through different instruments and diagnostic tests.
- You will know the instruments of observation and recording to detect behaviors and habits to modify in the classroom.
- You will design strategies for the prevention of these difficulties and guide the school’s teaching team on the techniques, resources and methodology to be applied with students with special needs.
- You will establish psychopedagogical intervention programs in different educational contexts to favor the integration of people with special needs, taking into account the available resources. You will use new technologies as a tool for diagnosis, exploration and psychopedagogical intervention.
- You will have the necessary resources to care for students with motor and sensory deficits in the classroom.
- You will develop specific intervention programs for students with difficulties in different learning areas (reading, writing and oral language).
Online modality
The Master in Special Education is carried out in the Online modality, adapted to the lifestyle of each professional.
You will follow the master’s degree at your own pace, with totally flexible calendars and schedules and the constant accompaniment of our experts.
Who Should Attend?
The Master Degree in Special Education is aimed primarily at professionals in the educational field (teachers, professors, speech therapists, psychologists, pedagogues and psychopedagogues) and professionals in the social and health fields (social educators, social workers, speech therapists, occupational therapists and other specialists) interested in responding to current learning difficulties through a specialized educational approach.