Online Special Needs & Child Psychology Courses

Institute of Child Education & Psychology, Europe:
ICEP Europe (Institute of Child Education and Psychology Europe) is the trusted leading provider of high quality online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and University-validated Diploma/Master programmes in special educational needs for teachers, parents and allied professionals who work with children and young people. Our courses are all developed and taught by leading practitioners in their fields. All our courses are delivered via user-friendly technology, putting you in control of when and where you choose to study.

SUMMER COURSES START JULY 2nd 2018 - For more information on the courses below & to book your place - contact us now!


Building Strengths and Creativity: This course draws from a wealth of psychological research and breakthroughs in neuroscience to arm you with a set of practical tools and evidence-based strategies for building strengths and creativity and unlocking human potential. 

Teaching Hope and Optimism: Hope and optimism are essential components of wellbeing. When nurtured, they bolster our resilience and act as powerful antidotes to depression and anxiety. This exciting course allows you to boost your own hope and optimism while learning how to enhance the psychological fitness and resilience of others.

Teaching Happiness: Learn how to apply the science and wisdom of positive psychology to improve psychological wellbeing, increase creativity, enhance learning and contribute to an upward and outward spiral of positive emotion and happiness, in your own life and those of your students and others.

Understanding Autism: From the search for an explanation, to diagnosis, assessment, and interventions, this course provides a route to understanding the complexity of autism. In this course we review proven interventions that are effective in teaching children with autistic spectrum disorders how to learn. The focus is on practical, evidence-based strategies to help teachers modify their instruction, structure the classroom and modify the curriculum to help maximize the learning potential of these children.

Applied Behaviour Analysis: In this course we cover all the key techniques of the ABA method, which include positive reinforcement, graduated prompting, repetition and teaching tasks in very small (discrete) steps. You will learn to apply ABA procedures in order to increase behaviours, teach behaviours and decrease challenging behaviours.

Teaching Troubled Children: The course focuses on proven strategies and interventions at the level of the school, classroom and individual student. It enables you to gain an understanding of the causal factors in development of emotional and behaviour problems and the learning and behavioural implications of such difficulties.

Teaching and Learning with ICT: In this course, we try to take a fresh look at getting the best out of ICT, for our students and for ourselves as teacher. This core aim of this course is to introduce some simple technologies that will challenge and extend our pupils’ understanding and creativity.

Advanced Teaching Skills for Classroom Management: The most crucial variable associated with student achievement is good classroom management. Its importance has been highlighted across numerous research studies over many years. Being an effective teacher means having the ability to create an optimal learning environment for all students. This process requires ongoing development and application of a range of appropriate management skills every day and in every class.

Teaching Gifted and Talented Students: Suitable for teachers and other professionals working with youngsters in both primary and post primary settings, this course provides a comprehensive understanding of gifted and talented students and offers an examination of the essential topics teachers and others need to know about the education of these students. Among the topics covered are motivation, underachievement, peer pressure, social acceptance and dual exceptionality; gifted and talented students who also have a learning disability and therefore have complex special needs.

Dyslexia: Our specialised course on dyslexia is designed for teachers both at primary and post-primary level; it is also suitable for psychologists and other professionals. An in-depth examination of the origins and basis of this learning disorder, the course includes up-to-date research, screening and assessment techniques, support strategies and also reviews the most effective interventions and remediation programmes.

Using the iPad to support students with SEN: Nowadays, iPads are in most schools in Ireland, but the question is: are they used to best effect? When used to their potential, they offer enormous possibilities to enrich learning and support inclusion. This course showcases best practice settings from around the world.

Teaching Gifted and Talented Students: Students with exceptional ability are frequently overlooked. Without the support they need, their gifts will not develop and they may not have the futures they were meant to have. This course will give you an in-depth understanding of the needs of high potential learners and equip you to foster and stimulate their learning, ensuring they flourish and achieve.

General Learning Disabilities: This course is designed for teachers at both primary and post primary level and will provide you with a very good knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding the inclusion of children with general learning disabilities in mainstream classrooms, enabling you to recognise and respond to the needs of these students.

Down Syndrome: Developed in collaboration with Down Syndrome Ireland, this course is designed to equip schools and educators to provide the highest quality of education to students with Down syndrome.

Universal Design for Learning: Universal Design for Learning creates curricula and learning environments that are designed to achieve success for a much wider range of student abilities and disabilities, by choosing effective methods and materials and by selecting the best way to assess their students' progress.

Literacy: This course provides a comprehensive response to the literacy needs of 21st century learners. It gives teachers the essential tools to engage children and young people in their literacy learning, making it more relevant, enjoyable and effective.

Numeracy: The changing needs of a changing world demand new levels of mathematical literacy for the 21st century and new teaching approaches can help us to meet this challenge. Numeracy is a life-skill and essential for learning other subjects; this course is designed to provide you with a practical toolkit for enhancing the numeracy skills of all your students.