The course is designed to help students gain self-understanding in order to be more effective in working with people. This course focuses primarily on service principles, practice, legislation and policy relevant to working in the field of support to individuals who live with disabilities. Ethics and issues related to working within an agency or bureaucracy are also examined. This course provides students with an opportunity to work and observe in a special needs setting under the direction of college instructors and on-site staff. The focus of this practicum is to provide students with an opportunity to interact with children or adults with challenging conditions to develop objective documentation skills and to observe the techniques and procedures used by on-site staff.
Students develop objective documentation skills.
This course builds on the skills developed in the first practicum experience. Students apply support skills and teaching strategies learned in their classes and continue to develop objective documentation skills. Students implement the plan for one month during the spring term. The objective of this practicum is to provide students with an opportunity to practice implementation of techniques that they have been taught in program courses. Students implement the plan created during Practicum II and demonstrate field readiness.