SPED Special Education

SPED-100 Introduction To Special Education 1 cr.
Fall
Introduction to the special education profession. Survey of the history, philosophy, mission, legislation, issues, organization, and resources associated with the profession; and introduction to the professional standards and content guidelines.

SPED-300 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-301 Learning Disabilities 3 cr.
Spring
Identification, remediation and evaluation of learning disabled; intervention techniques used with adolescents and adults.

SPED-305 Introduction to Early Childhood Special Education 2 cr.
Summer
Introduction to the history and purposes of EC-SE programming, legislation, population receiving services, family intervention, intervention models and issues.

Prerequisites: take SPED-430 and HDFS-124.

SPED-310 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. Admission to Early Childhood Special Education Certification track.

Prerequisites: take SPED-305.

SPED-315 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: take SPED-305 and SPED-310.

SPED-318 Introduction to Teaching and 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-320 Early Childhood Exceptional Educational Needs Assessment 2 cr.
Summer
Assessment and diagnosis of the young child with a suspected disability. Norm referenced, criterion referenced, and play-based assessment in the following areas: cognitive, motor, speech/language social/emotional, and family. Admission to Early Childhood Special Education Certification track. Prerequisites: take SPED-315.

SPED-322 Curriculum and Instruction: Severe Disabilities 2 cr.
Spring
Curriculum and instruction strategies for teaching functional academics, personal/social, vocational, and community living skills to individuals with severe and profound disabilities.  Benchmark I completed.

Prerequisites: take SPED-300 and SPED-430.

SPED-323 Mild Disabilities: Social Studies and Science 3 cr.
Fall and Spring
Curriculum and methods of teaching students with mild cognitive, learning, and emotional/ behavioral disabilties 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. Benchmark I completed.

Prerequisites: take SPED-300, SPED-301, and SPED-430.

SPED-324 Curriculum and Instruction: Career and Transition Education 3 cr.
Fall
Curriculum and instruction for persons with disabilities in prevocational, career education, career preparation, and transition, stressing collaboration between education, community-based service providers, and families. Benchmark I completed.

Prerequisites: take SPED-300 and SPED-430.

SPED-326 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. Benchmark I completed.
Prerequisites: take SPED-300.

SPED-328 Assessment for Individual Education/ Transition Plans 3 cr.
ESC 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. Benchmark I completed.

SPED-330 Introduction To Communication Disorders  3 cr.

Fall

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

SPED-338 Pre-Student Teaching Children/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-400 Workshop: Topics in Special Education 1-3 cr.
Summer
Current specialized topics studied through experiential activities.

SPED-410 Adaptive Angler Education   1 cr.

Summer

Methods of teaching basic and adapted fishing skills to individuals with disabilities.  Successful completion results in Wisconsin DNR Angler Education Instructor certification.

SPED-420 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.  Benchmark I Completed.

SPED-430 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-440 Diagnosis and Remediation of Literacy And Math Disabilities 4 cr.

Curriculum, methods, assessment and remediation of teaching reading, math, and language to individuals with mild disabilities. Strategies that assess and evaluate, monitor progress, increase, maintain and generalize skills, facilitate integration, and compensate for learning deficits in the general and special education curricula.  Benchmark I Completed.  Prerequisites:  take EDUC-380 EDUC-381 EDUC-382.

SPED-447 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-462 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. Benchmark I completed.

SPED-480 Student Teaching With Handicapped Youth 4-8 cr.
Fall and Spring
Directed teaching and community experiences in selected off-campus schools with normal and handicapped adolescents. Satisf Health, Speech, English.

Prerequisites: take SPED-462.

SPED-481 Student Teaching: Special Education   4-16 cr.
Fall and Spring
Directed special education teaching and community experience in selected off-campus schools. School of Education permission required.

Prerequisites: take SPED-318, SPED-326, and SPED-462.

SPED-482 Student Teaching Early Childhood -- Special Education 4-8 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: take SPED-320 and SPED-430.

SPED-488 Intern Teaching: Special Education 16 cr.
An alternative method of obtaining Special Education student teaching experience. Interns receive license to teach and salaried appointment in a cooperating school for one semester. School of Education permission required.
Prerequisites: take SPED-322, SPED-323, SPED-324, SPED-326 and SPED-462.

SPED-489 Intern Teaching Early Childhood: Special Education  8-16 cr.

Directed teaching and community experiences in selected infant, toddler, preschool, or primary school-based programs for children with disabilities.  R

Prerequisites:  take SPED-320.

SPED-490 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.