Participation Students are expected to keep current with the assigned reading. Each class period students will be chosen at random to respond to discussion questions provided by the instructor on the assigned texts. These questions will be posted on the instructor's web and Blackboard page. Attendance Prompt attendance at all class sessions is expected and required. As circumstances may arise which make attendance impossible, one absence will not adversely effect grades.
Students missing more than one class session can expect to have their final grade reduced.
Grading Grades are based on the percentage of the top score, and are assigned at the discretion of the instructor. Each student will be assigned an exceptionality from the list below on the first day of class. The presentation will be 12-15 minutes long on Thursday, August 6. Describe how the child is effected by the family's response to the exceptionality, and how the child's exceptionality has effected the family. Explain what you see as the two or three most significant obstacles that stand in the way of the child's fullest possible realization of his or her potential.