10 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 111Special Education and Exceptional Learners3
This course prepares education majors to understand the nature and purpose of special education; its historical, legal, and structural bases; and how it attempts to understand and meet the needs of students with various disabilities.
This course familiarizes future teachers with the uses of assessment in educational settings. Basic concepts of measurement; the types and uses of assessments, both formal and informal, in the education process will be described; and legal and ethical considerations in assessment will be explored. This course will prepare students to further develop and refine their skills in assessment in subsequent coursework and practicum.
This course will prepare special education majors to identify and use the eight phases of the special education process as related to IEPs, IFSPs, and Section 504s.They will describe the roles and importance of collaboration between members of a Multi-Disciplinary Team and learn how to write a legally and educationally sound IEP.
This course prepares special education majors to develop and implement transition plans needed by students with disabilities as they prepare to experience post-secondary opportunities, including post-secondary training and education, and community living skills.
SPE 361Intensive Reading, Writing, and Math Instruction3
This course prepares special education majors to use specially designed instruction and assistive technology to help students with learning problems (i.e., primarily students with Learning Disabilities enrolled in Learning Support Programs), most of whom are included in regular education, to develop oral language, reading, writing, and math skills.
This course prepares education majors to teach students with learning problems (i.e., primarily students with Learning Disabilities), including those that are inclusion-based.
This upper level course focuses on the characteristics of students with low incidence disabilities across the life span and prepares students to educate and support these students in a variety of settings.
This course prepares special education majors to teach in middle and secondary-level therapeutic emotional support programs, including those that implement inclusion.
This course will familiarize students with the characteristics of students with autism spectrum disorders and help students develop skills necessary to implement educational and behavioral intervention with these students. Research findings and strategies to support students in a variety of settings, including inclusive classrooms, will be discussed. Previously offered as SPE 364: Methods: PDD, and should not be taken by anyone who previously completed SPE 364 except for the purposes of grade replacement.
This course prepares pre-service teachers to support students with disabilities included in general education programs and collaborate with their teachers to facilitate students’ success.