Student teaching is not available during the summer term. Senior Assignment Students are required to complete a Senior Assignment in conjunction with Special Education course 481. The senior assignment enables students to demonstrate the integration of their general education and special education coursework. The Special Education Program sponsors a chapter of the Student Council for Exceptional Children. Students are encouraged to become members of the chapter and participate in meetings with guest speakers, develop community projects with individuals who have disabilities, and read professional journals.
Membership is open to all students.
Speech-language pathologists study human communications, its normal development and its disorders. Their responsibilities include the identification, evaluation and remediation of individuals having communicative disorders. They also work toward the prevention of disorders of speech, hearing and language through public education, early identification of problems, and research into the causes and treatment of disorders. Audiologists are concerned with normal and defective hearing. Their responsibilities include the prevention of hearing loss and the identification and rehabilitation of those who have impaired hearing.