Specific Learning Difficulties

Intended learning outcomes

The Master of Learning Intervention learning outcomes are for students to:

• Deepen their knowledge and extend their understanding in recent developments in educational thought, particularly as it applies to contemporary intervention practice for students with disabilities, learning difficulties, and hearing loss;
• Acquire a substantial understanding of relevant theory and practice in areas applicable to educational interventions and to the chosen specialisation;
• Display the ability to make carefully reasoned and appropriately documented decisions relevant to this domain, using appropriate research principles and methods;
• Demonstrate, during professional practice or scholarship, the skill repertoire necessary to implement effective intervention in the selected speciality; this includes diagnosis of learning profiles, the planning and implementation of empirically validated pedagogy and the provision of learning contexts that optimize inclusive educational opportunities;
• Display an understanding of contemporary research in the selected speciality areas and to develop from this an integrated understanding of intervention practice;
• Demonstrate communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences;
• Plan and execute a substantial research-based project, capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship; and
• Establish a sound basis for doctoral studies through the study of research principles and methods applicable to the field of educating students with a disability, learning difficulty, or hearing loss.