EXC665 Inst Lrners Mod/Svr Disabs
Course Description
Overview of the characteristics; curriculum planning and evaluation; and teaching methods, strategies, media and materials for students who manifest moderate to severe disabilities. Addresses positive behavior support, communication and social networks, mobility and health and sensory issues. Interactive teaming and parent collaboration are addressed as they relate to IEP development.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate competence in the application of research methods used with students with moderate/severe disabilities, including critiquing and synthesizing current peer-reviewed educational literature.
- Demonstrate competence in designing instruction to meet the needs of students with moderate/severe disabilities, including functional skills and accessing the general curriculum.
- Demonstrate an understanding of federal and state laws, legislation, and judicial decisions regarding exceptional individuals.
- Demonstrate competence in Positive Behavior Support, including Functional Analysis of Behavior (FBA).
- Demonstrate expertise in the use of adaptive and augmentative technology used with students with moderate/severe disabilities.
- Develop skills to become a change agent, advocate for students with moderate/severe disabilities, and assist moderate/severe students in becoming self-determined.
- Demonstrate appropriate standards of conduct; practice within legal and ethical parameters.
- Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to actively and creatively support all students in learning.
- Demonstrate competence in the ability to apply research methods used with students with moderate/severe disabilities, including professional writing, and the use of technology for research.
