39 courses with the subject SPE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SPE 111Disability in School and Community3
This course explores diverse disability perspectives, covering disability categories, causes, adaptations, and societal impacts. Creative media and narratives offer insights into lived experiences. Emphasizes home and school environments' role in student success, with a peer partnership replacing field experience.
Strategies of differentiation, adaptation, active learning, inclusive lesson planning, collaborative teaching, and assessment to promote the learning of all students. Communication, behavior, and social supports for meaningful participation of all students. Implementation during field experience.
Overview of learner characteristics and supports for students with disabilities; problem solving processes for inclusive schools and communities. Weekly field experience getting to know an individual with a disability. Additional work is assigned for graduate students.
SPE 409Teaching Children and Adolescents with Autism3
Cognitive, social, and communication needs of children and adolescents with autism. Examines program development, behavioral management, and effective educational strategies for this population of students.
SPE 412Adapting Instruction for Diverse Student Needs3
Methods and materials to ensure that diverse student needs are met in classrooms. Focus on individual differences in learning, behavior, physical abilities, and emotional characteristics. Other differences will also be considered (e.g., race, gender). Additional work required of graduate students. Admission to a teacher preparation program.
Information, skills, and tools essential for teaching students with complex support needs in inclusive settings. Evaluate the meaning of low and high incidence disability and plan meaningful educational opportunities for students with such labels.
Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Current topics in research and practice related to autism spectrum disorder and inclusive schooling. Topics such as lessons from autobiographical accounts, literacy and numeracy, sensory awareness, movement disorder.
SPE 609Teaching Children and Adolescents with Autism3
Cognitive, social, and communication needs of children and adolescents with autism. Examines program development, behavioral management, and effective educational strategies for this population of students.
Overview of learner characteristics and supports for students with disabilities; problem solving processes for inclusive schools and communities. Weekly field experience getting to know an individual with a disability. Additional work is assigned for graduate students.
SPE 612Adapting Instruction for Diverse Student Needs3
Methods and materials to ensure that diverse student needs are met in classrooms. Focus on individual differences in learning, behavior, physical abilities, and emotional characteristics. Other differences will also be considered (e.g., race, gender). Additional work required of graduate students. Admission to a teacher preparation program.
SPE 613Developmental Therapy for Children with Disabilities3
Integrated occupational/ physical therapy interventions and curricular modifications for children with special needs, ages birth to 5 years, in collaboration with early childhood special education planning.
SPE 618Augmentation of Communication in the Inclusive Classroom3
Supporting students who are users of augmentative and alternative communication in inclusive classrooms. Variety of communication approaches, systems, and devises. Academic, social, legal, and policy issues.
SPE 627Early Intervention for Children's Reading Problems3
Research based instruction for prevention and remediation of reading difficulties. Focus on preschool and early elementary children at risk for reading problems, as well as older elementary children labeled learning disabled, reading disabled, or dyslexic.
SPE 628Educational Planning for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities3
Academic, social, and vocational needs of the learning disabled adolescent and young adult. Emphasis on the development of learning strategies that can be applied across content area subjects in mainstream classrooms.
SPE 633The High-Risk Infant: Medical Treatment and Educational Interventions3
Major medical conditions of newborns, associated developmental delays and disabilities, and ethical issues of medical treatment in neonatal intensive care. Problems of preterm, full-term, and post-term infants. Current issues (e.g., substance abuse, HIV-AIDS).
Collaboration and transition focusing on the knowledge, beliefs, values, and skills associated with working in inclusive schools. The roles and responsibilities necessary for healthy school collaboration among parents, administrators, general educators, special educators, psychologists, therapists, paraprofessionals, and community partners.
SPE 644Significant Disabilities: Shifts in Paradigms and Practices3
Curriculum development, methods, materials, and instructional strategies, emphasizing inclusive settings. Discrimination encountered; history and experiences (e.g., eugenics, racial stereotypes, gender roles, and ideas of progress); perspective of those with significant disabilities.
SPE 652Assistive Technologies for Integrating Students with Special Needs3
Development of integrative technologies and strategies that can be functional in both educational and work environment. Support and adaptation for individuals with physical, educational, and language challenges.
SPE 653Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviors3
Approaches for supporting elementary children with challenging behaviors. Conflict resolution, peer mediation, prosocial behavior, skill streaming, and cooperative learning.
SPE 665Positive Behavior Supports in Secondary Schools3
Approaches to help support positive behavior in adolescents. Theories and characteristics of emotional and behavioral disabilities; historical perspective; current research; assessment techniques; effective strategies for schools, classrooms and individuals.
Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
SPE 705Practicum in Psychoeducational Evaluation and Planning for Exceptional Children3
Working on a psychoeducational teaching laboratory team, students learn to evaluate and plan programs for youngsters with puzzling learning and/or behavioral difficulties using home and school observations, formal, informal, and curriculum-based assessment strategies.
SPE 706Seminar in Early Childhood Special Education3
Key issues facing the field of early childhood special education. Medical and environmental influences on development, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, current legislation affecting programs,and new approaches to early intervention.
SPE 724Inclusive Professional Practices in Special Education3
Roles and responsibilities of special education teachers in inclusive schools. Essential skills and dispositions associated with quality inclusive practice, including professional standards, ethical principles, individualized educational planning, and research-based practices.
Historical and current theoretical perspectives. Research related to factors that interfere with learning and its implications for instruction. For students in learning disabilities, special education, communicative disorders, rehabilitation, reading, and psychology.
