Supplement IV. Projects.

Project 1.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk with your classmates or a presentation on the following topics:

The system of special education.

Abnormal children should not be isolated from the society.

Exceptional microcultures or how to overcome social isolation.

The role of a psychologist in the treatment of speech impairments.

Project 2.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk or a presentation on the following topics:

1. What do you think of the pluses and minuses of inclusive education in Russia and abroad.

2. Do we need inclusive education?

3. Speak on the advantages and disadvantages of being a gifted person.

4. Autism is a world.

5. Watch the film “The Rain Man” and do a project on the topic of the film.

Project 3.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk or a presentation on the following topics:

a)Each child has individual strength and weakness at each stage.

b)Discuss a child’s problems.

c)There must be clear evidence of significant problems in social school

or work functioning.

d)Speech problems of grown-up businessmen and politicians.

Project 4.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk or a presentation on the following topics:

1. Contemporary technologies and devices and the problem of deafness.

Project 5.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk or a presentation on the following topics:

1. Only braille system can help to children’s social development.

Project 6.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk or a presentation on the following topic:

1. Ttreatment that should be given to children with physical disabilities and its effectiveness.

2. What role can art (painting,, writing poems and stories, dancing etc.) play in the life of the deaf, the blind and exceptional people on the whole.

Project 7.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk or a presentation on the following topics:

1. Talk about the capacity of the child to grow into a capable individual.

Project 8.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk on the following topics:

1. Individuals with physical disabilities dislike the implication that they are unable to function.

2. Children with Down syndrome and their adoption in Russia and abroad.

Project 9.

Monitor mass media programmes and literature on your speciality. Find interesting material and organize a round-table talk or a presentation on the following topics:

a) Remarkable recoveries and methods of rehabilitation.

b) Indigo Children.

c) Giftedness is not something you do. Giftedness is something you are. (Advantages and disadvantages of being a gifted child.)