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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Purpose of this course is for preservice and practicing educators to develop the knowledge and skills to effectively teach mathematics and other content area subjects to students with mild disabilities in middle/secondary schools. Educators will learn how to use instructional methods and content enhancement devices to make curricular content more accessible for students with disabilities. Strategies for promoting retention, application, and generalization of content learning will also be examined.
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4.00 Credits
Develops philosophical and social foundations for services to individuals with significant and multiple disabilities, early childhood through adulthood. Emphasizes ecological and functional assessment strategies for life skills, communication, social, motor, and functional academic domains. Strategies for including students with significant and multiple disabilities in system-wide, standards-based assessment are addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Information and skills development for meeting the specialized support needs commonly found with students with significant disabilities. Focus on educational implications considering (1) the nature of the medical condition, (2) methods for instruction (i.e, positioning, mobility), and (3) procedures for structural modifications. Course incorporates information from various disciplines and is designed to assist the educator in becoming an effective member of a transdisciplinary team that serves students with routine and emergency medical and physical needs.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with a historical background of the education of the visually disabled, this course provides an overview of basic information about visually impaired children and youth. Basic programming components and implications for conceptual and motoric development. Basic curricular components necessary for the visually impaired, leading to transition from school to adult life.
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2.00 Credits
All special signs and symbols relating to the literary code are learned and special formatting techniques used in printed materials, charts, and graphs. Study of Braille Nemeth Code for mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of assessment procedures in the field of early intervention/early childhood special education. These procedures include screening and testing using norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, curriculum-based, and observational methods. Reliability and validity of assessments are discussed in relation to standardized testing. Learners have the opportunity to observe and record the behaviors of young children. Assessment strategies such as arena assessment, play-based assessment, parent reporting and family interviewing. Emphasis on the assessment process for the young child and the family's role in the assessment of the young child with developmental delays or disabilities.
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3.00 Credits
Develops knowledge and practices for teaching and facilitating development of children with special needs, birth through the primary grades. Builds upon the student's knowledge of child development and developmentally appropriate practices. Focuses upon the design of individually appropriate practices, principles of applied behavior analysis, activity-based intervention, naturalistic teaching strategies, discrete trial teaching, and positive behavioral supports. Develops knowledge and skills for curriculum-based assessment, design of individual program plans, and use of data collection systems to monitor child progress.
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4.00 Credits
Study and practice of principles of voice production and articulation of speech sound, with attention to elementary speech physiology and phonetics. Intended for students who desire to develop more effective speech and for meeting special needs of teachers, radio and television speakers, public speakers, and others who require special competence in speaking. Emphasis on both theory and practice. Two hours per week of laboratory work required.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory systems for speech, with applications to speech disorders. The physiology of swallowing and swallowing disorders is also covered.
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4.00 Credits
Provides students with a foundation of knowledge regarding basic processes of language acquisition. In addition to the study of normal language development from a theoretical, developmental, and clinical perspective, related areas of study include cognition, social interactions, play, and literacy. Bilingual and multicultural issues are also addressed.
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