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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course includes presentation, demonstration, and interpretation of techniques of individual psychological examination of exceptional children and youth. The course also discusses various standardized and teacher-made instruments for evaluating the intellectual, perceptual, social, and emotional competence of handicapped children, and necessary adaptations for the various types of handicaps.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to orient the prospective special education teacher to young children with special needs. Curriculum considerations, the role of parents in the education of their handicapped child, an understanding of child development and deviations from the norm, and individualized educational planning are topical areas. Goals of the course are to provide students with competencies in observation, prescriptive teaching, and in improving communication with parents of children with special needs.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of diagnostic teaching techniques. By employing diagnostic skills, various remediation techniques are covered. Curriculum materials, teaching methods and equipment, educational kits, etc. are introduced.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the field of mental retardation including a study of biological, sociological, and psychological theory and research. Recommended teaching techniques are presented.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth consideration of the nature and needs of children with behavioral handicaps. This course deals with problems of etiology, classification, and educational management of the broad spectrum of emotional and social maladjustment. Special reference is made to the problems of children who require special education services. Fieldwork participation is an integral part of the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide prospective special education teachers with an understanding of the unique needs of the severely and profoundly handicapped individual. Realistic programming for such individuals requires knowledge of the role of related professions, teaching self-help skills, and the care and management of severely and profoundly handicapped persons. The student is required to receive part of his or her instruction in a setting where he or she can gain experience in observing behavior and be afforded opportunities to witness current curriculum practices with the severely and profoundly handicapped.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of problems associated with neurologically and perceptually impaired children. This course also covers etiology, types, associated handicapping conditions, suggested procedures for evaluating levels of disabilities, and suggested procedures for dealing with these disabilities.
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3.00 Credits
This course orients the student to methods, materials and program planning for teaching the special education child who is orthopedically handicapped. This course also covers causes of this type of handicap, such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, and other disorders.
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1.00 Credits
This course is a full-semester (one full day per week) field experience, observing students in public school settings. Students take this course during their junior year. Prerequisite: SPEC 250 Introduction to Education and Psychology of Exceptional Children and Youth, SPEC 310 Communication Disorders and SPEC 315 Psychoeducational Assessment for Special Education
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to prepare prospective special education teachers and other child care workers to be competent in working with infants (age's birth through two years). Major goals of the course are to provide a background of normal infant development and to enable the student to become knowledgeable about stimulation activities applicable to the special needs infant at appropriate development levels. These activities provide for enhancing the physical, social and intellectual development of the infant child.
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