Parenting with Developmental Disability
GSDD5014
This unit introduces students to the challenges and achievements typically found in the lives of parents with a developmental disability and their children. Students will critically examine 'popular' and professional narratives about, and responses to parents with a developmental disability. Students will become familiar with the empirical literature on parenting with a developmental disability, including but not limited to evidence-based parent education and family support strategies. Students will apply this knowledge to identify service gaps, and opportunities in their own local area to promote the heatlh and wellbeing of families headed by a parent with a developmental disability.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 6
Commencing semesters: 1
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: GSDD5014
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No