Special Education (SPE)

This course provides pre-candidates/candidates with an introduction to characteristics of atypical students and their educational needs. Pre-candidates/Candidates will participate in observatons of students with special needs and explore future occupational choices related to the field of special education.

In this course students will investigate various technologies available to students with disabilities including deaf and hard of hearing, autism, learning disabilities, IDD, OHI, and other identified disorders, Discussions will focus on the psychological and physiological aspects of their use.

This course is an exploration of the learner's total environment as it influences the learning process for students with special needs, English Language Learners, and the typical developing child.

This course examines nutrition, health and safety skills for the child with disabilities. It covers nutritional concepts and the most common nutrition-related conditions that have an impact on our health. The course also covers different types of safety that children, with or without disabilities, should be aware of to keep them safe and healthy. This includes physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions in students' lives. It also includes learning about the many medications and how they mix with other medications that children with disabilities may take.

Focus on strategies for developing culturally appropriate family professional partnerships to benefit children with special needs. Explores supporting family-centered approach. Includes a focus on family and professional rights and responsibilities in the special education process.

Focus on strategies for developing culturally appropriate family professional partnerships to benefit children with special needs. Explores supporting family-centered approach. Includes a focus on family and professional rights and responsibilities in the special education process.

Candidates address current theories and application of research-based effective reading strategies and writing instruction. The use of differentiated instructional methods provides candidates with alternative means of supporting students with disabilities in the processes of reading and writing.

This course examines theories of speech disorders in young children and how to use different strategies to help children learn. Literacy skills include intervention curricula, communication among cultures, problem solving techniques, role of language in learning, and supporting families in making decisions relating to their children's development and learning.

This course emphasizes a variety of assessments for special education children from preschool through high school. Different instruments of assessing and procedures will be learned such as validity, reliability, bias, scoring, RTI, creating IEP's and IFSP's as well as other performance based assessments to help children.

This course is a survey of the basic characteristics of children who have been determined to differ slightly from their peers in terms of mental, physical, and/or emotional characteristics. There will be a brief introduction to those educational programs and services collectively known as 'special education' in contemporary public and private schools. Attention is given to using information from an Individualized Education Program to create adaptations for learners with special needs. Meets teacher education requirements of PL 94-142 and HB 150.

Candidates will learn methods and strategies for adapting classroom instruction to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities and/or cognitive impairments in the middle school setting and make informed instructional decisions based upon those needs.

Candidates will learn methods and strategies for adapting classroom instruction to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities and/or cognitive impairments in the middle school setting and make informed instructional decisions based upon those needs. Fulfills Honors Program credit hour requirement.

This course explores topics surrounding characteristics and issues related to students with disabilities at the secondary level. Teaching strategies will address differentiating instruction in the areas of math, science, social studies and Language Arts.

This course provides pre-candidate/candidates with a variety of classroom management styles and instructional strategies, including, RtI, PBIS, and best practice that are appropriate for those who intend to teach students with special needs. Pre-candidates/Candidates will combine theory and practice to make informed decisions when planning interventions.

This course introduces methods of best practice for delivery and assessment of mathematical and science concepts to students with disabilities in the elementary/middle school setting.