University extension course for Legal Assistants for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities

Presentation

The title serves so that people with intellectual disabilities acquire knowledge in different legal matters and can access more important jobs in society.

 The degree will train students to:

• Being able to teach other people about the rights of people with intellectual disabilities.

• Being able to work as legal assistants in companies related to the administration of justice (consultancies, law firms, etc.).

The objective of the title is to train and create quality employment for people with intellectual disabilities in a university environment. Students will have a university recognition to favor their future inclusion in the work environment as disseminators and trainers.

and as support staff in the tasks of a law firm or legal consultancy.

legal deloitte, collaborates in the title and its professionals will give classes as legal experts.

 (https://www2.deloitte.com/es/es/pages/legal/topics/legal.html)

During the 2 years that the degree lasts, there will be external internships as disseminators in matters of rights in Special Employment Centers, Special Education Centers, and Occupational Centers, as well as in law firms, where students will be able to carry out

their practices as paralegals.

Participate in external internships Sphere Foundation.

The Foundation prepares the contents of the subjects in easy reading.

https://www.fundacionesfera.com/

The Occupational Centers of the Community of Madrid leave us their facilities for the internships and their staff to support the students in the internships.

Objectives

The title wants:

1. Promote the social and labor autonomy of the student.
2. Empower people with intellectual disabilities by teaching specific knowledge that allows them to broaden their work horizons.
3. Train people with intellectual disabilities in the knowledge of their rights and that they are part of their lives.
4. Create quality jobs as legal trainers in different fields such as education and business, and as legal assistants in companies.
5. Impact on society and public opinion to overcome the limits and barriers that exist on intellectual disability.
6. Promote diversity within the university environment, and collaboration between degree students and those pursuing higher studies at the URJC.

The URJC with this title becomes a very advanced University since it is the first time that a university provides such specialized training, linked to a highly qualified work environment such as the legal one.

Competences

GENERAL COMPETENCIES

• The student will be able to act as a trainer-disseminator on the rights of people with ID in different environments such as educational, health, legal and specifically in the environment of disability (Schools, health centers, Special Centers for Employment, Occupational Centers, Foundations/Associations, etc.).
• The student will be able to carry out auxiliary tasks as a legal consultant.
• The student will be able to carry out administrative functions linked to the administration of justice, especially in law firms and legal consultancies.

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES

• General knowledge of law as an instrument for regulating social relations
• Knowledge of the fundamental rights recognized in the Constitution and its defense instruments, with special reference to their exercise by people with intellectual disabilities.
• Knowledge of the basic principles of civil law, and its most relevant institutions.
• Knowledge of the basic principles of labor law and its most relevant institutions.
• Knowledge of the basic principles of tax law, and its most relevant institutions.
• Knowledge of the main rights that assist people with ID in the field of health care.
• Students will be able to search legal databases
• Students will be trained to identify legal problems related to people with intellectual disabilities and make the referral to the specialist of the competent branch of law in each case.
• Students will learn the main forms and administrative and judicial procedures in the field of civil, fiscal and labor law.
• Students will be trained to carry out administrative tasks of a paralegal nature, such as monitoring deadlines, filling in forms, requesting certifications and simple notes before the registries, procedures to obtain NIEs, requests for documentation from translators and notaries, procedures for legalization of documents abroad, procedures related to notarizing social agreements, procedures related to the request for electronic signature, etc.