25 courses with the subject SPED, 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.
SPED 1000Disability in Popular Media3
This is a discussion-based class designed to develop an awareness of disabilities as they are portrayed in modern popular media. This course specifically investigates representations of disability in mainstream media, as well as the impact that such portrayals have on people with disabilities and on people without disabilities.
This course is designed to provide information and skills necessary for accommodating exceptional learners in a variety of school arrangements. The primary focus is foundations and characteristics of special education and students with exceptionalities and collaboration/consultation for the successful inclusion of students with exceptionalities into the inclusionary classroom.
SPED 2000Assessment and Positive Behavior Interventions3
This course is required for all education or related services majors and is intended to provide future teachers with the fundamental knowledge, skills, and disposition: how to administer, score, and interpret both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment devices; how to design appropriate learning environments to promote positive learning and reduce interfering behaviors; and how to design and implement schoolwide and classroom positive behavior interventions and supports.
SPED 2050Introduction to Special Education with Field Observation3
The Special Education Field Experience I is a course taken by candidates majoring in Special Education. Candidates spend 45 hours in a school setting to gain experience with students with disabilities. This will be a collaborative experience between the candidate, the university supervisor, and the collaborating teacher. The collaborating teaching will be certified in special education and have at least two years experience teaching students with disabilities. While fully immersed in the school-based setting, the candidate will observe a variety of special education placements during the semester. The observations will focus on instructional techniques, assessments, and classroom management related to each student’s IEP and identified disability.
This course focuses on the Practice of prevention and intervention in dealing with students who demonstrate academic deficiencies. It will prepare in-service and pre-service educators with the skills and knowledge to deliver and support instruction to students with disabilities in the classroom setting. Offered each semester.
This course addresses classroom approaches to managing disruptive behaviors in inclusive settings. It emphasizes current research and effective practice on a continuum from proactive through intervention strategies. The course addresses issues of physical environment, daily routines, rules and appropriate consequences both natural and logical. This course is taken at the pre-candidacy level of a teacher candidate’s program.
This field experience provides students with an experience in the introduction of students with disabilities in a public school or alternative setting. Students participate in the education process by assisting in the planning, instruction, and classroom management of students under the supervision of a certified special educator in a public school or other approved educational setting.
SPED 3000Introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis3
Focuses on principles of applied behavior analysis in the assessment and treatment of behavioral excesses or deficiencies. Students will design programs to increase skill acquisition or reducing inappropriate behavior for either groups or individuals in special education, clinical settings, or rehabilitation settings.
SPED 3010Special Learning Disabilities and Emotional Behavior Disorders3
This course focuses on the nature of specific learning disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders and familiarizes the student with the classification systems and theoretical models. This course also emphasizes the history, etiology, characteristics, assessment and treatment/instructional approaches as they pertain to children and adolescents in classroom settings.
This course will cover biological, psychosocial, and educational implications of intellectual, physical disabilities and health impairments. This course provides information on etiology, assessment, programs, and educational strategies for students with intellectual, physical disabilities, and health impairments. Additionally, the course will address instruction, curricular adaptation, collaboration, advocacy, special services, equipment, and procedures for schools and community programs in working with students with these types of disabilities.
This course introduces the field of Early Childhood Special Education with a focus on the young child with disabilities. It emphasizes early intervention rationale, history, and identification of at-risk children. Relationship-building teaming with families approaches included. Also included are mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDEIA).
SPED 3055Fundamentals of Structured Literacy for Special Educators3
This course focuses on developing in-depth fundamentals needed by special educators to deliver sound structured literacy instruction to individuals with exceptionalities through the exploration of speech to print foundations and the reading brain. There will be an emphasis on enhancing the students’ competencies in phonics and structural analysis.
This course will expand on the Science of Reading fundamentals and provide students with specific data-based strategies used to teach reading skills, progress monitor, conduct error analyses, and teach written expression to exceptional learners.
This course provides information about and supervised practice, through a field experience, using formal and informal assessment instruments commonly utilized in Special Education. It addresses instruments and procedures associated with the identification and programming process, and curriculum-based assessment for progress monitoring.
This introductory course provides a foundation in understanding and addressing the unique and complex challenges individuals on the autism spectrum face in their learning, development, and social experiences.
This course is designed to provide information and skills necessary for individuals interested in the philosophy found within special education identification and practices. The course also serves to provide information regarding the definition, prevalence, etiology, characteristics, and ethical educational practices.
SPED 4010Assistive Technology for the Exceptional Learners3
Overview of a wide range of assistive technology(AT) for individuals with mild to severe disabilities. Students will learn about the use of the devices, definition of AT, legal mandates of AT, identification of funding resources, how to assess assistive technology needs, how to integrate AT in the IEP, and how to deliver online instruction.
SPED 3060 and SPED 3070 and SPED 3080 and SPED 3090
SPED 4040Transition Planning and Instruction3
This course deals with special education programs for senior high school students as well as those persons who reside in the community. Emphasis is placed on vocational preparation and training. Specific techniques for task analysis of jobs, daily living skills, and social adaptation constitute a major portion of this course.
SPED 4050Advanced Evidence Based Practices and Methods for High Incidence Disabilities3
This course is about designing effective instruction for students with high incidence disabilities. It involves identifying, designing, and implementing evidence based practices and strategies to facilitate student success as well as determining their effectiveness. Field Experience is an Instructional Project.
SPED 4060Advanced Evidence Based Practices and Methods for Low Incidence Disabilities3
This course is about designing effective instruction for students with low-incidence disabilities. It involves identifying, designing, and implementing evidence-based practices and strategies to facilitate student success and determine their effectiveness. Field Experience is an Instructional Project.
SPED 4070Classroom Administration, Collaboration, and IEP Development3
This course examines the process of developing Individualized Education Plans (IEP’s) for exceptional students, and provides supervised practice in completing state IEP forms. It presents best practice for collaborating with all members of the IEP team and emphasizes the role of the family. Field Experience is an Instructional Project.
This course offers preparation in the design and delivery of communication, behavior and instructional supports for diverse learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and includes data-based assessment and intervention; Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), functional communication, Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC); environmental supports; structured teaching; differentiated instruction, cognitive, developmental and sensory-based approaches.
This course (and its mirrored second section SP ED 4250 ) provides for observation and participation in teaching students with disabilities as well as the performance of a teacher’s work tasks.
This course (and its mirrored second section SPED 4240 ) provides for observation and participation in teaching students with disabilities as well as the performance of a teacher’s work tasks.
