Facilitated Learning QQI Level 5 Live and Online via Zoom

• Identify key teaching strategies that promote effective learning for people with an intellectual disability

• List criteria for prioritising individual learning goals

• List the four categories of prompts used in the systematic teaching of skills

• Define the concept of fading of prompts

• Compile a list of potential reinforcers for an individual with an intellectual disability

• Design a token economy system to reinforce learning

• Use task analysis to break activities into clear, teachable steps

• Apply prompting and fading techniques to teach each step of a task

• Devise appropriate systems for documenting learning progress

• Evaluate progress in skill development and goal achievement

• Describe different learning styles and explain how the senses contribute to learning

• Identify difficulties related to receiving, processing, storing, and responding to information

• Describe factors that motivate an individual to learn

• Explore intellectual disability in relation to stages of cognitive development

• Outline the main stages of typical cognitive development

• Explain the importance of balance across life areas in achieving overall wellbeing

• Identify areas of life that are often out of balance for people with an intellectual disability

• Explain how balance can be achieved by identifying support needs and linking them to learning goals

• Explain the differences between short-, medium-, and long-term goals

• Explain the role of reinforcement in learning

• Describe how reinforcement can be used to promote learning and behavioural change

• Differentiate between continuous and intermittent reinforcement and their effects on learning and behaviour

• Outline the four stages of error correction procedures

• Summarise the continuum of opportunities for facilitating learning

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