Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:
- Recognise the conceptual clarifications and definitions related to interdisciplinarity
- Describe the historical development of interdisciplinarity through time
- Identify educational practices and programs related to interdisciplinarity
- Document the necessity of an interdisciplinary team for people with ASD
- Describe the disciplines related to the interdisciplinary team in ASD and explain the role of each of them
- Analyse the six-step model for setting up a multidisciplinary team for a child with ASD
- Apply the six-step model to case studies
- Identify and implement best practices and guidelines for interdisciplinary collaboration
- Evaluate interdisciplinary team challenges, issues and disagreements that arise and implement relevant coping strategies
- Describe the role of the interdisciplinary team in school environments
- Describe the role of an interdisciplinary early intervention team
- Understand the role of the child psychiatrist
- Understand the role of the paediatrician
- Understand the role of the psychologist
- Understand the role of the speech and language therapist
- Understand the role of the occupational therapist
- Understand the role of a nutritionist
Course Content
- Interdisciplinary team: Conceptual clarifications and definitions
- The path of interdisciplinarity over time
- Training in interdisciplinarity
- Interdisciplinarity and ASD, necessity of existence
- Professionals involved in the interdisciplinary team
- Six-step model for setting up a multidisciplinary team for a child with ASD and case study
- The functioning of the multidisciplinary team: good practices, characteristics of an effective multidisciplinary team, guidelines for multidisciplinary collaboration
- Challenges of the multidisciplinary team, issues and disagreements that arise and strategies to address them
- Specific categories of interdisciplinary teams: interdisciplinary early intervention team, interdisciplinary team in school settings
- The role of the child psychiatrist
- The role of the paediatrician
- The role of the psychologist
- The role of the speech and language therapist
- The role of the occupational therapist
- The role of the nutritionist