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Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (MIC): Graduate Certificate / Diploma in Autism Studies

Institution Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (MIC) View institution profile
Department Faculty of Education
Web https://www.mic.ul.ie/study-at-mic/postgraduates
Email admissions@mic.ul.ie
Telephone +353 61 204348
Study type Taught

Summary

This Graduate Certificate / Diploma in Autism Studies is accredited by the University of Limerick and is delivered as a partnership between Middletown Centre for Autism and Mary Immaculate College.

Middletown Centre for Autism is funded by the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Education in Northern Ireland to promote excellence in the education of people with autism. As such, the Centre works on a referral basis with children who have complex needs in school and the Centre is one of the main providers of training for parents and educational professionals in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Mary Immaculate is a College of Education and the Liberal Arts and has been providing teacher education since 1898. Mary Immaculate has considerable experience and expertise in the provision of teacher education in the area of Special and Inclusive Education including autism. The College’s Department of Educational Psychology, Inclusive and Special Education is led by Dr Patricia Daly, who is a co-organiser of this course on autism.

Both agencies recognise the need for high quality graduate autism professional development in Ireland and Northern Ireland and the Graduate Certificate in Autism Studies will meet this need.

Go further with a postgraduate degree from MIC

If you would like to be part of an innovative and creative learning environment, with excellent student supports and resources, apply now for one of Mary Immaculate College’s (MIC’s) world-class postgraduate programmes in the Liberal Arts and Education offered at Diploma, Masters and Doctoral (PhD) levels.

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Grounded in decades of scholarship in Education and the Liberal Arts, postgraduate students at MIC experience responsive research supervision and mentoring, funding and career development support schemes, and a first-class “community of practice” in the new purpose-designed graduate research and study facility on …

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