National University

• Each candidate exhibits intellectual integrity, serves students honestly, protects their privacy, respects their work, and sustains open discussion of ideas.
• Each candidate demonstrates knowledge and understanding of various legal mandates for equity in special education, including but not limited to, the Individuals with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504).
• For an internship program, the preservice component of the program shall provide training in essential concepts and skills since interns function as fully certified teachers.
• Each candidate demonstrates basic knowledge and understanding of a variety of disabilities, including etiologies, characteristics, specialized physical health care procedures and regulations related to such care, educational and social impact, educational approaches and available resources.
• Each candidate demonstrates basic knowledge and understanding of the effect of medication on the learner and resources available to obtain current information.
• Each candidate exhibits knowledge of the impact of various disabilities on the provision of educational services to individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds.
• The program offers each candidate field experiences that correspond to the organizational structure and curriculum of the program.
• Each candidate works with and across age/grade ranges authorized by the credential.
• Each candidate applies knowledge related to managing learning environments to ensure the safe and effective use of space, time, instructional techniques, materials, equipment and technology.
• Each candidate demonstrates an understanding of the purpose and process of behavior management approaches.
• Each candidate consults with specialized health care and nursing specialists in the provision of services to individuals with disabilities.
• Each candidate defines key assessment concepts and terminology and identifies the steps in the assessment process and the roles that parents, students, and professionals play on the multidisciplinary team.
• Each candidate demonstrates knowledge and skill in assessment techniques and tools appropriate for individuals with diverse backgrounds and varying communicative and cognitive abilities.
• Each candidate analyzes, compares, and evaluates the roles of relevant technology for use in ongoing assessment and instruction.
• Each candidate examines various factors affecting family and child development, including the effect of early communication on the overall development of the child.
• Each candidate in knowledgeable of the potential education and social impact of additional disabilities and can recognize and support students who need specialized services for their multiple disabilities which are beyond the capacity of the teacher to provide.
• Each candidate is familiar with the communication features (visual, spatial, tactile, and/or auditory) salient to individual learners.
• Each candidate examines research in cognition related to children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• Each candidate understands the importance of appropriate assessment using the preferred language and communication modality of the deaf or hard of hearing student.
• Each candidate demonstrates the ability to modify or design an appropriate learning environment to meet individual deaf and hard of hearing students' needs and learning styles inducing those with additional disabilities.
• Each candidate demonstrates an understanding of the infusion of appropriate media, technology, and assistive/augmentative devices into the learning process for deaf and hard of hearing students.

Incomplete A grade given at the discretion of the instructor when a student who has completed at least two-thirds of the course class sessions and is unable to complete the requirements of the course because of uncontrollable and unforeseen circumstances. The student must convey these circumstances (preferably in writing) to the instructor prior to the final day of the course. If an instructor decides that an "Incomplete" is warranted, the instructor must convey the conditions for removal of the "Incomplete" to the student in writing. A copy must also be placed on file with the Office of the Registrar until the "Incomplete" is removed or the time limit for removal has passed. An "Incomplete" is not assigned when the only way the student could make up the work would be to attend a major portion of the class when next offered.

An "I" that is not removed within the stipulated time becomes an "F." No grade points are assigned. The "F" is calculated in the grade point average.

Withdrawal Signifies that a student has withdrawn from a course after beginning the third class session. Students who wish to withdraw must notify their admissions advisor before the beginning of the sixth class session in the case of graduate courses, or before the seventh class session in the case of undergraduate courses. Instructors are not authorized to issue a "W" grade.