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Online course offerings by semester (all are 3 credit
offerings)
Fall
Sped 517 -
Educating Students with Severe Disabilities
Examination of the definitions, characteristics,
instructional methods/techniques, and educational programming for learners with
severe disabilities. Also explored are typical and atypical motor development
with mobility techniques and prosthetic and technical devices.
Prerequisite: SPED 419
Sped 524 -
Assessment in Early Childhood Special Education ECSE
Examines assessment instruments and procedures with
infants, toddlers, preschoolers with disabilities. Approaches to identification,
screening, assesment selection and programming are explored. Prerequisite
substitutions require instructor consent. Prerequisite substitutions require
instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 523
Sped 526 - Infant Strategies
This course overviews knowledge and skills necessary
to be effective professionals in working with families and infants and toddlers
with disabilities and those at risk for disabilities. Emphasis is placed on
parent-professional collaboration, interagency and interdisciplinary planning,
and design of effective individual family service plans. Prerequisite
substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 523
SPED 561 Learning Disabilities
An introduction to definition, assessment,
characteristics, and educational strategies for children and youth with specific
learning disabilities. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 320
Sped 573 - Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
Identification, assessment, and programming for
students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders. Course includes operation of
program models of educational and other treatment agents. Prerequisite
substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 320
Spring
Sped 556 -
Functional Assessment and Curriculum
The purpose of this course is to develop an
understanding of individuals with developmental disabilities as well as a
functional, life-skills orientation to assessment and curriculum. Students will
perform both informal and formal assessment, write an assessment report, and
develop curriculum which allows for integration of students with identified
cognitive impairments. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 513 SPED 519 SPED 571
Sped 559 -
Communication Programming for Persons with Severe
Disabilities
This course covers issues related to communication
program and decision-making models for communication programming for individuals
with severe disabilities. The emphasis is on assessing an individual's
communication skills, selecting appropriate components for the communication
system and planning intervention strategies. Prerequisite substitutions require
instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 519
Sped 564 - Educational Planning and Adaptation
for Students with Learning Problems
Educational and transitional adaptations for
learning disabled or emotional/behavioral disordered secondary students based on
individual cognitive, affective, and behavioral characteristics. Prerequisite
substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 563
Sped 578 -
Educational Interventions:
Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
Program design, intervention techniques, and
management strategies for student with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders.
Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 573
Summer
Sped 519 - Biomedical Aspects of Physical and
Health Disabilities
This course is designed to help you understand the
medical aspects and terminology, human anatomy and physiology, pharmacology,
kinesiology, neurology, secondary health care issues, accompany specific
physical and health disabilities, specific condition needs, managing personal
care, first aid techniques, and evacuation procedures. Prerequisite
substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 320
Sped 523 - Young Children with Disabilities and
Their Families
Examination of the program models and approaches to
services for young children with disabilities and their families. Research on
the efficacy of early intervention and aspects of family systems is reviewed.
Current issues in service provision, teaming, and individual program plans are
also included in the course. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor
consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 320
Sped 527 - Instructional Strategies:
Preschool
The focus of this course will be knowledge and
skills required to design and implement individual and group instructional
programs for children with special needs from 3-6 years. The development of
instructional objectives and systematic teaching strategies in motor, cognitive,
social , communication and self-care skills will be emphasized. Prerequisite
substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 523
Sped 547 - Physical and Health Disabilities
This course is designed to provide you with
up-to-date information on the needs of the students in your school who have
experienced periods of poor health or physical adversity. This course provides
you an understanding of how students' illnesses or disabling conditions affect
their everyday lives. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 519
Sped 570 - Transitional Planning
Transitional planning for secondary students with
disabilities including transitional assessment, programming and planning.
Student will also acquire knowledge of post secondary service options and
funding sources. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 320
SPED 575 - Informal Assessment/Teaching Strategies:
Students with Learning Disabilities
Informal
assessment techniques and teaching strategies across the core content areas and
in social skills for elementary and secondary students with specific learning
disabilities. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent.
Prerequisite: SPED 561 SPED 563
SPED 545
Sped 594 - Legal/Social Foundations of Special
Education
This course overviews the educational sociological,
legal, and historical frameworks of special education services within the
context of public school systems. It includes research on the efficacy of
special education; national and state reform and renewal efforts in general and
environmental professional preparation, litigation and legislation, and best
practices in curriculum for all learners. Issues related to families in a
changing educational system are also addressed.
Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent.
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