SPED Special Education


SPED-500 Introduction to Individuals With Cognitive Disabilities (3 cr.)
Fall
Introduction to etiology of mental retardation; psychological, educational, social and vocational aspects; adjustment techniques used in working with mentally retarded persons.

SPED-501 Learning Disabilities (3 cr.)
Spring
Identification, remediation and evaluation of learning disabled; intervention techniques used with adolescents and adults.

SPED-505 Introduction to Early Childhood Special Education (2 cr.)
Summer
Introduction to the history and purpose of Early Childhood - Special Education programming, legislation, population receiving services, family intervention, intervention models and issues.

Prerequisites: SPED-430 or SPED-630.

SPED-510 Methods, Materials and Curriculum for the Exceptional Child (3 cr.)
Fall
Curricular and methodological adaptation for young children with exceptional educational needs in the areas of social-emotional development, manipulative and motor skills, self-help skills, communication, cognitive development, and creative expression.

Prerequisites: SPED-505; Admission to Early Childhood -- Special Education Certification Track.

SPED-515 Early Childhood Special Education Programming (3 cr.)
Spring
Organization and implementation of Early Childhood Special Education programs, including service delivery, program models, consultation and collaboration, and intervention agents.

Prerequisites: SPED-505, SPED-510.

SPED-518 Introduction to Teaching/Assessment in Special Education (2 cr.)
Fall, Spring and Summer
Provides one-on-one, supervised experience in teaching youth with exceptional education need (EEN). Provides the initial opportunity for the student to teach a young person with EEN in a supervised setting for 50 hours.

SPED-520 Early Childhood Exceptional Educational Needs Assessment (2 cr.)
Summer
Assessment and diagnosis of the young child with a suspected disability. Norm reference, criterion referenced, and play-based assessment in the following areas: cognitive, motor, speech/language social/emotional, and family.

Prerequisites: SPED-515; Admission to Early Childhood -- Special Education Certification Track.

SPED-522 Curriculum and Instruction: Functional Living Skills (2 cr.)
Spring
Curriculum and instructional techniques for developing basic functional living skills for persons with cognitive disabilities, borderline and severe. Prerequisites: SPED-500, SPED-630.

SPED-523 Mild Disabilities: Social Studies and Science (3 cr.)
Fall and Spring
Curriculum and methods of teaching students with mild cognitive, learning, and emotional/behavioral disabilities in the content areas of social studies, science, and in general education. Strategies that facilitate integration, improve maintenance and generalization of skills, promote transitions, increase self-awareness and self- management, and compensate for learning deficits.

SPED-524 Curriculum and Instruction: Career and Transition Education (3 cr.)
Fall
Curriculum and instruction for persons with cognitive disabilities, borderline and severe, in prevocational career, vocational education, and transition stressing interdisciplinary cooperation.

Prerequisites: SPED-500, SPED-630.

SPED-526 Pre-Student Teaching: Cognitive Disabilities (2 cr.)
Fall
Supervised experience in observing, planning instruction, and teaching children and youth with cognitive disabilities in a cross-categorical school environment. Repeatable three times for credit. R

SPED-528 Assessment for Individual Education/Transition Plans (3 cr.)
Fall, Spring and Summer
Diagnosing behavior and learning problems of students with exceptional education needs.Preparing individual educational and transitional plans based on comprehensive assessments.

Prerequisites: REHAB-620.

SPED-530 Introduction To Communication Disorders   (3 cr.)

Fall

Nature, causes of and methods used when working with individuals who have speech and language disorders.

SPED-538 Pre-Student Teaching: Children and Youth With Disabilities (2 cr.)
Fall, Spring and Summer
Supervised experience in observing, planning instruction, and teaching children and youth with disabilities in a cross-categorical school environment.

SPED-600 Workshop: Topics in Special Education (1-3 cr.)
Summer
Current specialized topics studied through experiential activities.

SPED-620 Schools, Families and Community Collaboration (3 cr.)
Theory, general principles and procedures for fostering collaborative partnerships among families, professionals, students and other service providers. Focuses on families with children who have disabilities.

SPED-630 Inclusion of Students With Exceptional Needs (3 cr.)
Fall, Spring and Summer
Inclusion of students with exceptional educational needs in the regular classroom setting. Laws, definition, characteristics, adaptations, strategies and transitional services that pertain to persons identified with: cognitive disability, learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emotional disability, autism, traumatic brain injury, speech and language disorders, visual and hearing loss, physical and other health impairments, and gifted and talented.

SPED-647 Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Children and Adolescents (3 cr.)
Spring and Summer
Assessment, identification and evaluation of emotional and behavioral disorders of learners middle childhood through adolescence, including methods of observing, diagnosing, documenting and interpreting. Characteristics of emotional and behavioral disabled learners, including potential concomitant physical, cognitive, or sensory disabilities and psychological, social and environmental factors contributing to childhood emotional and behavioral disorders.

SPED-662 Classroom Management Techniques (3 cr.)
Spring
Techniques for motivating handicapped youth, individual and group discipline, behavior modification, educational organization, evaluation, and communication to enhance learning.

SPED-682 Student Teaching Early Childhood-Special Education (8 cr.)
Directed teaching and community experiences in selected infant-toddler, preschool, or school based programs for children with disabilities. Admission to Early Childhood -- Special Education Certification Track.

Prerequisites: SPED-520, SPED-630.

SPED-690 Behavioral Interventions in the Schools (2 cr.)
Fall and Spring
Study and practice in Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavioral Intervention Planning for individualized behavior problems in the PK-12 educational setting using both a direct-service and consultation-collaboration model.  Focus on assessment skills to produce data-driven environmental modifications, pro-social replacement behaviors, consequence strategies, and home-school interventions.

SPED-799 Independent Study (1-3 cr.)
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