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• SPED 642: Curriculum and Instruction for Autism Spectrum Disorders

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Children with autism are among the most difficult students to teach. They require carefully planned, meticulously delivered, and continually evaluated and analyzed instruction. This course provides an overview of researched-based instructional strategies used to teach students with autism spectrum disorders. The course discusses interventions strategies for both the general and special education classroom.
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• SPED 643: Communication and Social Competency

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to provide students with an in depth look at the many facets of social competence for students with ASD and how the lack of or impaired communications skills leads to social incompetence. Special emphasis will be given to selecting evidence-based practices related to social skill development as well as communication problems related directly to students with ASD. Twenty hours of observation and field experience are part of the course requirements.
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• SPED 644: Advanced Study of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to deeply examine the various psychiatric and emotional disorders than can afflict children during the developmental period between birth and 18 years of age. Both internalizing and externalizing behavior disorders will be analyzed including such disorders as Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, etc. that are all found within the pages of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. A connection between these disorders and the need for special education services in school settings will be made as well as strategies provided for specially designed instruction for students with these disorders. A 48 hour field experience will be required as part of this course.
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• SPED 645: Early Intervention for Young Learners with Special Needs

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Early Intervention for Young Children with Special Needs is designed to comprehensively address procedures that link theory and research to best practices in serving infants and toddlers who are disabled or at-risk. The course will be organized and presented with a multidisciplinary approach to early intervention. There will also be a stron g focus on evidence-based early intervention programs.
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• SPED 646: Assessment and Evaluation

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to provide graduate students with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct educational assessment of diverse students and interpret assessment results in order to plan an educational program (i.e., determine eligibility and develop an individualized education program). The course will provide graduate students with an understanding of the assessment process; an understanding of the assessment procedures and terminology; the ability to interpret selected assessment instruments; and the skills needed to create, modify, and/or adapt assessments.
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• SPED 647: Transition for Persons with Disabilities

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to offer graduatge students enrolled in the Masters in Special Education Certification Program an understanding of what services are required, needed, and available to adults with disabilities through local community agencies. major developmental needs and philosophical approaches provided by various commun ity agencies will be explored. The course is based on a life-cycle approach using a Self-Determination Model to track the exceptional person as they begin the transition from secondary education in the world of work, adulthood and their elderly years. The course will examine recent social issues such as choice, individual control, dignity/respect and vocational programs that have dramatically altered the lives of exceptional adults.
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• SPED 648: Clinical Practicum in Special Education

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  The practicum is designed to extgend the student's professional preparation beyond the resources of the college to include the resources of the community and region. the practicum is intended to permit the graduate student to engage in supervised professional activities in selected cooperating community agencies and resources.
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• SPED 653: Emerging Web Technologies and Learning

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Candidates will utilize emerging web tools to address the needs of their content modules. The course will provide an opportunity to design innovative ways of applying these emerging technologies to facilitate their own teaching and student learning in the K-12 cyber classroom. Candidates will develop and submit an IRB approval for employing their modules with students in the Capstone course.
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• SPED 659: Issues and Ethics in Online Teaching

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Candidates will identify and explore current issues and ethical decisions educators and administrators experience when exploring and implementing online teaching practices. The goal of this course is to provide pre-service teachers with a knowledge base of the benefits and hardships that educational entities face when providing online instruction.
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• SPED 660: Basic Behavior Principles

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is an introduction to behavior analysis. Everyday behavior is examined as a part of the natural world and behavior change is explained by behavioral principles derived from scientific research. Students will have many opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of the procedures that derive from behavioral principles and will get some practice in implementing those procedures. Principles and procedures included in the course content are reinforcement, extinction, differential reinforcement, punishment, discrimination training, generalization, shaping, fading, and programming. Classical conditioning, conditioned reinforcement, schedules of reinforcement, behavioral definitions, reliability and direct observation are also addressed.
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