A one day seminar for Primary School and Post-primary Schools

This one-day course is provided by the Special Education Support Service (SESS) and provides an overview of Acquired Brain Injury. The content covers a wide range of topics relevant to teaching and learning and to the development of the child with an acquired brain injury in primary and post primary schools.

Course aims:

• To give information about different types of acquired brain injury

• To develop an understanding of what happens when the brain is injured and how it affects the pupil’s learning

• To gain knowledge about potential consequences of TBI/ABI; cognitive, behavioural, physical and medical

   

   

  Content of Seminar

• Introduction to different types of acquired brain injury

• Understanding the brain and what happens when it is injured

• Profiles of a pupil with ABI

• Distinguishing ABI from Specific Learning Difficulties

• Potential Consequences of TBI/ABI; cognitive, behavioural, physical and medical

   

  Information for Applicants:

  This course is open to:

• Teachers working with pupil(s) with ABI in a mainstream class/ special class

• Teachers in special schools currently working with pupil(s) with ABI

• Full-time Special Education Teachers currently working with pupil(s) with ABI

• Participants will require permission from the Board of Management to attend. Typically, substitution for this seminar will only be allowed to classroom teachers with primary responsibility for students with a special educational need and if it is deemed absolutely essential by the Principal

• Typically substitution will only be allocated to non - substitute teachers

• Payment is not available to teachers in a substitute capacity

Refreshments and lunch will be provided