Course Overview
If you are working towards a career in helping children or want to become proficient in understanding developmental, learning, and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents, this is the course for you.
Learn about the most common disorders impacting the lives of children including Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Asperger’s, ADHD, Communication, and Learning and Conduct Disorders.
This course in Developmental, Learning, and Behavioural Disorders in Children and Adolescents will help you gain an understanding of these disorders, their presentation, and the challenges that they present.
There are 9 lessons in this course:
- Nature and Scope of Developmental Disorders
- Autism – Autistic Disorder signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
- Asperger’s Disorder – signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
- Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Rett’s Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Developmental Disorders NOS) signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
- Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders – ADHD & variants, signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
- Conduct Disorders (Include oppositional defiant disorder) signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
- Learning Disorders – focus on academia (Mathematics, Reading Disorder – Dyslexia, etc.) signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
- Communications Disorders & Motor Skills Disorder – focus on speech and language signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
- Special Project (choose something of interest to the student) signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
Qualification
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive a GROW Training Group Training Certificate. Visit our site and learn about how you can enroll in this course.
