Graduate Special Education
Graduate Special Education
2022 Fall Term
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ADVANCED BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION STRATEGIES
SPECED 640
The purpose of this course is to provide special educators with the knowledge and skills to intervene with children with intense patterns of behavior that prevent the student from accessing the general education classroom. Techniques for conducting functional behavior assessments and designing behavior intervention plans will be provided. In addition, legal aspects regarding behavior intervention will be provided.
DIRECTED TEACHING/INTERNSHIP PRACTICA AND PHASE 4 SEMINAR
SPECED 680
The focus of this course is to support undergraduate and graduate teacher candidates to use formal and informal assessments, apply evidence-based practices in instruction, behavior management, working with families and community agencies in special education, gain first-hand experiences with diverse learners with disabilities, experience the different types and levels of service delivery models in different emphais areas across the special education continuum, and reflect on how, when, and why specific evidence-based practices are implemented in public school and alternative school settings. Teacher candidates will explore respective roles and responsibilities of all student teaching personnel. attention is also given to the recognition and application of skills and activities fundamental to the development of effective teachers. Teacher candidates will complete all special education department requirements including the Educator Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), unit plans, an IEP, FBA, and BIP along with online reflection journal submissions.
SPECIAL STUDIES
SPECED 696
Variable topics. Group activity. Not offered regularly in the curriculum but offered on topics selected on the basis of timeliness, need, and interest, and generally in the format of regularly scheduled Catalog offerings.
LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
SPECED 700
The purpose of this course is to provide an in-depth graduate level theoretical foundation of the field of special education. Historical trends and current issues in the field of special education will be explored with an emphasis upon the impact these issues have on current practice. Current special education law and its interaction with practice will also be explored.
ADVANCED METHODOLOGY AND PRACTICES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
SPECED 701
This course provides the post-baccalaureate student with the knowledge and skills to understand, interpret, and apply single-case design methods within the large context of research design in education. Students will learn how to evaluate single-case design research studies in order to understand current research related to the behavioral intervention. In addition, students will learn how to conduct single-case design researvh in order to evaluate their own intervention programs.
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH
SPECED 702
The course assists teachers in planning, organizing, implementing, and assessing inquiry-related strategies appropriate for their classrooms. Participants will investigate current issues by way of Action Research, ethnographic, symbolic interaction, and qualitative inquiry techniques. Projects will be conducted that relate to individual classroom needs and situations.
METHODS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
SPECED 708
This course provides students with methods of instructing children with autism spectrum disorders. The focus will be on developing functional skills based upon individual children's needs. Methods of instruction will include applied behavior analysis, sensory integration, TEACCH, and functional and ecological assessment procedures.
ADVANCED PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
SPECED 709
The purpose of this course is to provide students with specialized training in applied behavior analysis. This course will provide in-depth training in advanced concepts related to changing behavior, maintaining behavior change, teaching skills and making data-based intervention decisions. In addition, this course will discuss the ethical issues related to behavior change.
BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT
SPECED 741
In this course, students will learn how to assess behavior. Using a functional behavior approach, students will learn how to identify challenging behavior, define it, and assess it through indirect and direct methods. Assessment methods will include record reviews, interviews, direct observation, ABC assessment, preference assessment, and skill assessment.
BEHAVIOR CHANGE PROCEDURES
SPECED 742
Students will learn how to identify and implement appropriate behavior change procedures in order to reduce challenging behavior and teach new skills. Strategies will include shaping, chaining, reinforcement procedures, group contingencies, self-management, imitation training, and naturalistic teaching.
NEUROLOGY OF DYSLEXIA & LANGUAGE BASED LEARNING DISABILITIES
SPECED 750
This course focuses on the neurobiological origins of dyslexia and language based learning disabilities by examining characteristics and traits through history, theory, culture and social factors, law, and brain-based research. The course address introduces linguistic structures of and historical influences on the English language. Dispositions of professional practice are also addressed.
FOUNDATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CD/EBD/LD
SPECED 760
This course addressed the characteristics of students with cognitive disabilities, learning disabilities, and emotional/behavioral disabilities. The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the theoretical and historical issues related to threee high incidence disabilities. Specific application of theory and history will be applied to all three areas looking at characteristics across the life span. Inter-relationships of the characteristics, needs and implication for practice will be explored. Eligibility and models of service delivery will also be examined. Students who are not currently teaching will have to fulfill independent field experience expectations.
CURRICULUM AND METHODS FOR LOW INCIDENCE DISABILITIES
SPECED 776
This course focuses on meeting the educational needs of students requiring a functional intensive special education program. Methods of instruction will include strategies to promote general curriculum access for individual with significant and multiple disabilities; addressing the unique learning and support needs required to educate students with low incidence disabilities.