This course is designed to provide the graduate student with a foundation to understand the major community services required by individuals with various disabilities. This course, using the life cycle approach, tracks exceptional persons as they begin the transition from secondary education to the world of work, adulthood and their elderly years. The focus is on recent social change issues that have dramatically altered the lives of this population. This course provides students with an overview of the history of special education and an analysis of the major laws that have revolutionized special education. Each category of disabilities is analyzed and recent educational practice for each area is discussed.
Emphasis is on the major current issues and trends in the field.
This course will be offered at our Wexford site. This course is intended to acquaint educators with selected processes involved in teaching children who have emotional disorders. It has been designed to help participants gain a greater awareness and understanding of the interrelationships among theory of child development, learning and behavior as these relate to emotional and social disorders. This course will be offered at our Wexford site. This course is designed to enable the students to demonstrate proficiency in the selection and application of remedial procedures and materials with children evidencing mild learning problems in cognition, perceptual-motor, language and retention.