SPED 5000 Issues In Special Education

[3 credit hours]

Examination of causes and characteristics, identification procedures, and potential of learners who significantly deviate from the norm mentally, physically and behaviorally. Issues related to services for persons with disabilities will be studied.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 5010 Atypical Development In Early Childhood: Implications For Development

[3 credit hours]

Factors that contribute to atypical development in early childhood, appropriate intervention models and implications of delay on young children's development. The focus will be on conditions that may result in eligibility of children for early intervention and/or special education services in infancy (0-2), in the preschool (3-5) and primary grade (K-3) years (ages 5 to 8).

Term Offered: Summer, Fall

SPED 5080 Curriculum Adaptations and Strategies in Early Childhood Education

[3 credit hours]

[3 hours] Early childhood development, including learning and behavioral characteristics examined focusing on implications of developmental delay and risk. Implications for IEP-based intruction explored. Strategies that support inclusion descussed. Prerequisite: CIEC 5000, EDP 5210, SPED 5010.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall

SPED 5150 Advanced Practicum For Teaching Students With Moderate Educational Needs

[1 credit hour]

This course is taken with SPED 5160 to apply strategies and techniques for teaching students with moderate educational needs. Forty hours of required field.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall

SPED 5160 Advanced Instructional Methods For Teaching Students With Moderate Educational Needs

[3 credit hours]

This course focuses on a community-referenced functional curricula approach to teaching children and youths with moderate to severe delays. An in-depth study of inclusionary activities, community-based instruction, social skills.

SPED 5170 Partnerships in Transition Planning

[3 credit hours]

An in-depth study of strategies for linking young adults with disabilities to avenues leading to productive and fulfilling employment. Supported/customized employment and the development of successful business partnerships to create jobs and careers for young adults with disabilities will be addressed. This course requires 20 hours of field experience.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 5180 Advanced Instructional Methods For Teaching Students With Intensive Educational Needs

[3 credit hours]

An in-depth examination of appropriate curriculum models, instructional strategies and adaptations, and related behavior problems for students with severe and multiple disabilities. A transdiciplinary team approach is explored.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 5190 Advanced Practicum For Students With Intensive Needs

[1 credit hour]

This course is taken with SPED 5180 to apply strategies and techniques for teaching students with intensive needs. Forty field hours are required.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 5210 Augmentative and Alternative Communication

[3 credit hours]

This course will provide an overview of alternative or augmentative modes of communication for children who are unable to meet their daily communication needs through natural modes such as speech, gestures or handwriting. It will provide a broad overview of AAC and its application, along with the history and terminology.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 5250 Assessment and Planning in Transition Education and Services

[3 credit hours]

The course examines the planning and programming that supports young adults with disabilities during their transition from school to adult life. The course will cover several issues in the area of transition, including models of transition, planning, evidence-based instruction, assessment, transition planning, and progress monitoring. This course requires 20 hours of field experience.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 5260 Family And Professional Relations In Special Education

[3 credit hours]

Effective parent and professional partnerships will be explored. Interpersonal communication skills, legal issues, effective models for home-school communication, and differences in culture, values and family expectations will be discussed.

Term Offered: Summer, Fall

SPED 5270 Team Models And Community Networking In Early Intervention

[3 credit hours]

This course will focus on the skills, knowledge and ethical practices essential to the provision of effective service coordination and teaming for early intervention and early childhood special education. In addition, students will examine various models of teaming and consultation approaches and address issues related to working with individuals from cultural backgrounds other than their own.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall

SPED 5280 Management Of The Learning Environment In Early Childhood Special Education

[3 credit hours]

This class will provide an analysis of the various aspects of quality environments, in the home and early childhood centers for young children with special needs. Identifying characteristics of natural environments and designing interventions that promote positive child outcomes will be emphasized. A case study approach will be utilized. This course requires 50 hours of field experience.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 5310 Advanced Instructional Methods For Teaching Students With Mild Educational Needs

[3 credit hours]

Theoretical considerations for designing instruction, lesson plan development using direct, explicit instructional approach, differentiation, co-teaching, and evidence-based practices to meet the needs of students with mild disabilities in school settings will be examined. Research-based approaches to teaching language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, will be explored.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall

SPED 5320 Advanced Field Practicum For Students With Mild Educational Needs

[1 credit hour]

Provides opportunities for field experience to use and refine the strategies for persons with mild disabilities presented in SPED 5310. Forty hours of field required.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall

SPED 5340 Advanced Behavior Management

[3 credit hours]

This course provides training inservice teachers to become managers of intra-communication and interpersonal relationships in diverse special education settings. Nonviolent Crisis Prevention/Intervention (CPI) training required.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 5380 Transition Process from High School to Post-Secondary Settings for Students w Disabilities

[3 credit hours]

This course prepares the pre-service special education interventionist to support students with disabilities during the transition from high school to post-secondary settings. The course will address several issues regarding transition, including legislation, assessment and planning, and evidence-based instructional strategies. Special emphasis will be placed on self-determination through self-advocacy.

Prerequisites: Upper Division with a score of 1

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 5980 Special Topics In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

An advanced course for graduate students in special education or related fields. Topics are selected based on needs of the population. Student may repeat this course under different section numbers.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 5990 Independent Study In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

Individual study provides graduate students with opportunities to work individually on professional problems with faculty of the Depart of Special Education Services. Individual meetings with sponsoring faculty are held.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 6070 Curriculum Models And Intervention Strategies In Early Childhood Special Education

[3 credit hours]

Atypical infant, toddler, and early childhood development will be examined. Specialized intervention techniques, their research and practice base and appropriate curriculum models will be explored.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 6110 Practices of Teaching Learners with Exceptionalities

[3 credit hours]

This course is designed for candidates completing licensure. Teacher candidates will gain initial special education content that will assist in understanding students with exceptionalities and laws governing special education. In addition, teacher candidates will learn about the implementation of specially designed instruction for students with exceptionalities attending an inclusive classroom. This course will also focus on data collection, assessment, collaboration, and teaming.

Corequisites: SPED 6210

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 6130 Advanced Practices for Inclusive and Specialized Teaching

[3 credit hours]

This course is designed for candidates completing licensure and helps teacher candidates advance their practice. Continued content concentrating on the implementation of specially designed instruction for students with exceptionalities commonly attending an inclusive classroom will be continued. Additionally, data collection and assessment will be studied with respect to daily lesson planning, IEP writing, and behavioral management. IEP writing and functional behavior plans will be created based on a case study in the field. Collaboration and teaming with families will continue to be investigated.

Prerequisites: SPED 6110 with a minimum grade of C

Corequisites: SPED 6230

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 6190 Policy, Context, and Hallmarks of Special Education

[3 credit hours]

This course is designed for candidates completing licensure. Teacher candidates will gain initial special education content that will assist in understanding students with exceptionalities and laws governing special education. In addition, teacher candidates will learn about the implementation of specially designed instruction for students with exceptionalities attending an inclusive classroom. This course will also focus on data collection, assessment, collaboration, and teaming.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 6210 Practicum in Teaching Learners with Exceptionalities

[1 credit hour]

This course will provide directed practicum teaching experiences in general education (15 weeks) and special education (15 weeks) for candidates completing licensure. In this placement, teacher licensure candidates will use information about students' learning and performance to plan and deliver instruction that will close the achievement gap. They will create a learning environment that is physically and emotionally safe. Candidates will have the opportunity to work in educational settings with experienced teachers.

Corequisites: SPED 6110

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 6230 Internship in Inclusive and Specialized Teaching

[2 credit hours]

This course will provide directed planned field experiences in general education (15 weeks) and special education (15 weeks) for candidates completing licensure. In this placement, teacher licensure candidates will create learning situations in which students work independently and collaboratively in an environment that is respectful, supportive, and caring. Candidates will motivate students to work productively and assume responsibility for their own learning. Full responsibility for the classroom is expected by the end of the student teaching experience.

Prerequisites: SPED 6210 with a minimum grade of C

Corequisites: SPED 6130

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 6250 Issues and Research in Transition and Post-Secondary Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

[3 credit hours]

The course explores the history, ethics, legislation, case law, policy, and research that inform educational and programmatic decisions in the transition education field. This course requires 10 hours of field experience.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 6330 Internship/Student Teaching for Intervention Specialist

[4 credit hours]

This course provides pre-service special education interventionists with a full-time student teaching experience with students with disabilities. Teaching experiences may occur in classrooms found within the continuum of placements, ranging from (not limited to) general education with consult to special schools. Full responsibility for the classroom is expected by the end of the student teaching experience.

Prerequisites: SPED 5320 with a minimum grade of C or SPED 5190 with a minimum grade of C

Corequisites: CI 6190

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 6900 Independent Research In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

Independent Research provides opportunities to work on individual research under the direction of faculty. The student meets with the instructor at intervals and conducts research without formal class meeting.

SPED 6920 Master's Research Project In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

The master's project is an individually designed product which meets the final activity requirement for completion of the masters degree.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 6930 Seminars In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

Seminars will consider problems and provide advanced study in the field of Special Education. A student may register for more than one seminar during a graduate program.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 6940 Internship/Externship In Special Education

[1-8 credit hours]

Provides the advanced graduate student with supervised practicum experiences at an off-campus site; including schools, hospitals, agencies, rehabilitation clinics, work training sites and other community sites where persons with disabilities are served.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 6990 Independent Study In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

Individual study provides advanced graduate students opportunities to work individually on professional problems with faculty of the Department of Special Education Services. Individual meetings with sponsoring faculty are held.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 7000 Issues In Special Education

[3 credit hours]

Examination of causes and characteristics, identification procedures, and potential of learners who significantly deviate from the norm mentally, physically and behaviorally. Issues related to services for persons with disabilities will be studied.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 7150 Advanced Practicum For Teaching Students With Moderate Educational Needs

[1 credit hour]

This course is taken with SPED 5160 to apply strategies and techniques for teaching students with moderate educational needs. Forty hours of required field.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 7160 Advanced Instructional Methods For Teaching Students With Moderate Educational Needs

[3 credit hours]

This course focuses on a community-referenced functional curricula approach to teaching children and youths with moderate to severe delays. An in-depth study of inclusionary activities, community-based instruction, social skills.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall

SPED 7170 Partnerships in Transition Planning

[3 credit hours]

An in-depth study of strategies for linking young adults with disabilities to avenues leading to productive and fulfilling employment. Supported/customized employment and the development of successful business partnerships to create jobs and careers for young adults with disabilities will be addressed. Leadership roles within the area of transition services will be emphasized.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 7180 Advanced Instructional Methods For Teaching Students With Intensive Educational Needs

[3 credit hours]

An in-depth examination of appropriate curriculum models, instructional strategies and adaptations, and related behavior problems for students with severe and multiple disabilities. A transdiciplinary team approach is explored.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 7190 Advanced Practicum For Students With Intensive Needs

[1 credit hour]

This course is taken with SPED 7180 to apply strategies and techniques for teaching students with intensive needs. Forty field hours are required.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 7210 Augmentative and Alternative Communication

[3 credit hours]

This course will provide an overview of alternative or augmentative modes of communication for children who are unable to meet their daily communication needs through natural modes such as speech, gestures or handwriting.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 7250 Assessment and Planning in Transition Education and Services

[3 credit hours]

The course examines the planning and programming that supports young adults with disabilities during their transition from school to adult life. The course will cover several issues in the area of transition, including models of transition, planning, evidence-based instruction, assessment, transition planning, and progress monitoring. Course content will prepare the student to have a leadership role in curriculum development.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 7260 Family And Professional Relations In Special Education

[3 credit hours]

Effective parent and professional partnerships will be explored. Interpersonal communication skills, legal issues, effective models for home-school communication, and differences in culture, values and family expectations will be discussed.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 7270 Team Models And Community Networking In Early Intervention

[3 credit hours]

This course will focus on the skills, knowledge and ethical practices essential to the provision of effective service coordination and teaming for early intervention and early childhood special education. In addition, students will examine various models of teaming and consultation approaches and address issues related to working with individuals from cultural backgrounds other than their own.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 7280 Management Of The Learning Environment In Early Childhood Special Education

[3 credit hours]

This class will provide an analysis of the various aspects of quality environments, in the home and early childhood centers for young children with special needs. Students will identify characteristics of natural environments and design interventions that promote positive child outcomes. Critically thinking about evidence-based practices found in the special education professional literature will be emphasized.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 7310 Advanced Instructional Methods For Teaching Students With Mild Educational Needs

[3 credit hours]

Theoretical considerations for designing instruction, lesson plan development using direct, explicit instructional approach, differentiation, co-teaching, and evidence-based practices to meet the needs of students with mild disabilities in school settings will be examined. Research-based approaches to teaching language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, will be explored.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall

SPED 7320 Advanced Field Practicum For Students With Mild Educational Needs

[1 credit hour]

Provides opportunities for field experience to use and refine the strategies for persons with mild disabilities presented in SPED 7310. Forty hours of field required.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 7340 Advanced Behavior Management

[3 credit hours]

This course provides training inservice teachers to become managers of intra-communication and interpersonal relationships in diverse special education settings. Nonviolent Crisis Prevention/Intervention (CPI) training required.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 7610 Seminar I: Orientation to Interprofessional Teaming

[1 credit hour]

Become familiar with requirements for the Certificate in Interprofessional Teaming. Focus on competencies needed to work collaboratively with professionals to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities and their families.

Prerequisites: SPED 7270 with a minimum grade of D-

Term Offered: Summer

SPED 7630 Seminar III: Evidence-Based Practice and Innovation in Teaming

[1 credit hour]

Issues related to principles of ethical practice, professional and advocacy. Ways in which technology can promote effective teaming practices with other professionals as well as with family members.

Prerequisites: SPED 7620 with a minimum grade of D-

Term Offered: Summer

SPED 7980 Special Topics In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

An advanced course for graduate students in special education or related fields. Topics are selected based on needs of the population. Student may repeat this course under different section numbers.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 7990 Independent Study In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

Individual study provides graduate students with opportunities to work individually on professional problems with special education faculty. Individual meetings with sponsoring faculty are held.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 8070 Curriculum Models And Intervention Strategies In Early Childhood Special Education

[3 credit hours]

Atypical infant, toddler, and early childhood development will be examined. Specialized intervention techniques, their research and practice base and appropriate curriculum models will be explored. Supporting professional development at various organizational levels is addressed.

Term Offered: Fall

SPED 8250 Issues and Research in Transition and Post-Secondary Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

[3 credit hours]

The course explores the history, ethics, legislation, case law, policy, and research that inform educational and programmatic decisions in the transition education field. Emphasis will be placed on developing the knowledge, skills, and disposition of being a leader in the field of transition services.

Term Offered: Spring

SPED 8900 Independent Research In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

Independent Research provides opportunities to work on individual research under the direction of faculty. The student meets with the instructor at intervals and conducts research without formal class meeting.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 8940 Internship/Externship In Special Education

[1-8 credit hours]

Provides the advanced graduate student with supervised practicum experiences at an off-campus site; including schools, hospitals, agencies, rehabilitation clinics, work training sites and other community sites where persons with disabilities are served.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 8960 Doctoral Dissertation In Curriculum & Instruction

[1-12 credit hours]

The doctoral dissertation is an original scholarly product required of all students completing the doctoral degree in Special Education Services.

Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

SPED 8990 Independent Study In Special Education

[1-5 credit hours]

Individual study provides advanced graduate students opportunities to work individually on professional problems with faculty of the Department of Special Education Services. Individual meetings with sponsoring faculty are held.

Term Offered: Spring, Fall