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I'm Penny Lacey and I'm the programme coordinator for the programme Severe, Profound and Multiple
Learning Difficulties. This is a course which is mainly for teachers but not just for teachers,
we also have therapists of various kinds and also teaching assistants, support assistants,
whoever they might be, but everybody must have some kind of experience of children or
adults with Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. And they can be working
in nurseries, schools or colleges or even in adult education, wherever there are learners
with Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.
This is a course which can be taken at various levels, so you can take a postgraduate certificate
which is three modules for one year part-time or you can go right the way through and take
a masters which is three years part-time. Also there is a level for people who don't
already have a degree and these are people who can do an advanced certificate or maybe
a BPhil.
The idea behind the course is that you should develop your own practice. And there are specific
opportunities for you to do this as part of the modules and you will be asked to develop
three research projects for the first three modules and then you can go on and do more
if you take the longer part of the course and finish up with a dissertation which is
perhaps a larger piece of work. The course is designed to be studied through
blended learning. Now blended learning is a combination of campus based learning when
you come to the campus for the campus component which is three days and then in addition to
that you will be studying online. The campus component is three days which we usually try
to put just before half term. So it's Friday, Saturday and Sunday just before you have a
week off for half term. It doesn't quite work for everybody but it almost does.
You will come to the university and really immerse yourself in the course for those three
days and you will go home exhausted but hopefully happy!