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• SPED 343: Americans with Disabilities

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will provide background for understanding how disabling conditions may handicap a person in terms of jobs, marriage, and family life, housing and transportation and citizenship. The course stresses how everyone is involved in determining the success or failure of the disabled in society. An historical overview of society's treatment of the disabled will be contrasted with recent legislation and the emerging roles of the disabled in American society. The impact of special education on the disabled person, the parents, siblings, employers, neighbors, and peers will be presented.
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• SPED 346: Assessment in Transition Planning

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course introduces the student to the assessments utilized for evaluation of students at all levels of transition planning, spanning from school readiness assessments to transition planning for the secondeary level. Students will learn to identify appropriate assessment based on student needs as well as how to administer and score evaluation data. In addition, the course will guide students in reviewing and interpreting assessment data to determine appropriate transition planning to address student needs. The course will also indentify the major litigation and legislation that have sigificantly influenced the nature of service to exceptional populations in the area of transition planning and assessment of their needs.
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• SPED 347: Management & Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is an advanced level course that expands students' knowledge in skills necessary to take on leadership and management roles in the secondary transition planning level. Students will be required to engage in professional organizations at the state and local level. Students will learn to identify how to develop an effective system for service delivery to clients. Additional, an emphasis will be placed on current funding sources in the nation and state as well as how to manage necessary paperwork for obtaining funding necessary to run appropriate transition programs for children and adults of transition age.
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• SPED 350: Universal Intervention

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, student will identify the critical components of Tier 1 in the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) for learners with and without disabilities including: universal interventions, best practices, screening, progressing monitoring, classroom management, PBIS, collaboration, co-teaching, SDI and accommodations and inclusionary practices.
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• SPED 353: Teaching in an Area of High Need

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, we will discuss the problem of over representation of individuals from diverse backgrounds in special education and the racial, cultural, and economic concerns of school systems and communities (both domestically and abroad) trying to narrow the opportunity/achievement gap for students.During the semester, students will be analyzing some of the historical, socioeconomic, and political factors school systems in areas of high need confront.Specifically, students will investigate effective instructional and organizational practices, examine home-school connections, and identify possible disparities in available resources for urban and rural schools.
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• SPED 360: Targeted Instructional and Behavioral Interventions for Neuro-Diverse Learners

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, students will identify the critical components of Tier II in the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) for learners with and without disabilities including: data-based decision making, evidenced based practices, supplemental and intensive programming, differentiated instruction and assessment. These concepts will be explored within the scopes of academic and behavioral supports for exceptional learners.
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• SPED 390: Experimental

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.
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• SPED 395: Workshop

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.
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• SPED 398: Selected Topics

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.
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• SPED 410: Transition Practicum

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  The practicum course focuses on developing skills in collaboration, consultation and teaming to prepare pre-service Transition Specialist students for entry into a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional role of services provider to individuals with disabilities. In addition to hands-on experience with service agencies, Transition Specialist students enrolled in this course will interact with clients, service providers, agency supervisors, related service personnel and care takers.
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