Applied Psychology of Intellectual Disabilities – (M.Sc.)

This part-time distance learning course, delivered via the internet, provides an opportunity for those supporting children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families to enhance their knowledge and skills and gain an academic qualification. We use the term `intellectual disabilities´ to describe those who have significant problems with learning and who need support with many aspects of life. Other terms that have been used, and some still in common use in the UK are learning disability or learning difficulty and, in North America, developmental disability, mental retardation and mental handicap.

Currently this is the only distance learning course on this subject in the UK. We have been providing postgraduate education for service workers and supporters of people with intellectual disabilities for almost 20 years. The MSc Applied Psychology of Intellectual Disabilities is a revised and updated version of the part-time course that was first offered in 1988. It has been taught as a distance learning course for almost ten years, making this successful course accessible to students throughout the world. We have graduates and current students from across the UK and many other countries including Eire, Greece, Cyprus, US, Taiwan and Hong Kong.