EDSP 226 - Teaching Students with Low Incidence Disabilities with Field Experience

Institution:

Wilkes University

Subject:

Special Education

Description:

This 3-credit course addresses the development, implementation, and monitoring of individualized management, instructional, curricular, and environmental strategies, and adaptations for students with special needs. Emphasis is placed on a needs-based model incorporating the cognitive, language, attentional, affective, physical, and sensory needs of lower incidence populations (multiple disabilities, hearing/vision impairments, orthopedic and health conditions) and pervasive development disorders/autism within a variety of settings. A field experience component facilitates direct interaction with learners with special needs, supplemented by cooperative discussions of experiential applications to course content. [[EDSP-502]]

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

[[ED-190]] and [[EDSP-210]].

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.wilkes.edu

Phone Number:

(570) 408-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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