This course aims to introduce and familiarize students with “Learning Difficulties”, a discipline that combines cognitive neuroscience, psychology and education. In particular, through this course, students will become familiar with the different types of learning difficulties and the ways of managing such difficulties to ensure a quality learning process. Through assignments and discussions in the course, will be challenged to engage in critical thinking about whether knowledge about learning difficulties can indeed guide the development of learning strategies and teaching methods to the point of providing useful benefits.
Specifically, students after successful completion of the course will have acquired basic and sufficient knowledge about
• the different types of learning difficulties and how they define learning.
• the international literature on learning disabilities.
• the intervention programmes that are appropriate for each learning difficulty.
• the use of the DSM-5 in terms of assessment criteria for learning disabilities.