EDSP 501 - Teaching Students With High Incidence Disabilities With Field Experience

Credits: 3

This course addresses the development, implementation, and monitoring of individualized management, instructional, curricular, and environmental strategies and adaptations for students with special needs. Pedagogical recommendations and research based effective teaching practices are reinforced from prerequisite courses. Emphasis is placed on a needs based model incorporating the cognitive, language, attentional, affective, physical, and sensory needs of higher incident populations (learning disabilities, mild mental retardation, speech disorders, and behavioral challenges) within included settings, resource room, segregated and learning support environment. A 20 hour field experience component facilitates direct interaction with special needs learners, supplemented by cooperative discussions of experiential applications to course content.