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• SPED 4200: Comm/Behavior/Inst-ASD

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course offers preparation in the design and delivery of communication, behavior and instructional supports for diverse learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and includes data-based assessment and intervention; Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), functional communication, Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC); environmental supports; structured teaching; differentiated instruction, cognitive, developmental and sensory-based approaches.
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• SPED 4210: Introduction to Dyslexia

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines the topic of dyslexia as a language-based learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. The course will compare and contrast the behaviors, characteristics, and brain-based processes that typically and atypically developing readers exhibit while listening, speaking, reading, writing, and spelling. Characteristics of effective intervention programs will be examined. Related conditions and assistive technology will also be discussed.
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• SPED 4240: Student Teaching

  6.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course (and its mirrored second section SPED 4250) provides for observation and participation in teaching students with disabilities as well as the performance of a teacher's work tasks.
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• SPED 4250: Student Teaching

  6.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course (and its mirrored second section SPED 4240) provides for observation and participation in teaching students with disabilities as well as the performance of a teacher's work tasks.
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• SPED 4260: Clin Prac for High Inc Disab

  1.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This practicum places teacher candidates into field settings involving people with high incidence disabilities who use an individualized curriculum. Teacher candidates will match instruction with learner, goal, and curriculum characteristics; identify and implement appropriate instructional strategies and sequences; and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction.
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• SPED 4270: Clin Prac for Low Inc Disab

  1.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This practicum places teacher candidates into field settings involving people with low incidence disabilities who use an individualized independence curriculum. Teacher candidates will match instruction with learner, goal, and curriculum characteristics; identify and implement appropriate instructional strategies and sequences; and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction.
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• SPED 4300: Life Transit and Partnership

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This seminar is designed to offer rigorous exploration and critical analysis of contemporary issues influencing the lifelong learning, development and sociocultural experiences of people on the autism spectrum. The course addresses core professional competencies in autism related knowledge and practice: (1) Transition, vocational and independent living, (2) Sexuality, (3) Family support and partnerships, (4) School and community partnerships; (5) professional literacy and leadership.
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• SPED 4400: Navigate Social World

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This seminar is designed to provide preparation in methods to enhance socialization, communication and imagination in diverse learners with ASD. The course merges the theoretical understanding of the "triad of impairments" as defining features of autism with practical modes of assessment and intervention.
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• SPED 4410: Field Experience

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This field experience provides students with an intensive experience in the instruction of students with disabilities in a public school or alternative setting. Students participate in the education process by assisting in the assessment, planning, instruction, and classroom management of students under the supervision of a certified special educator in a public school or other approved educational setting. This course must be taken in conjunction with the Special Education Block.
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• SPED 4500: Found of Behavior Analy & CLM

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This interdisciplinary course will provide you with the foundational concepts, principles and methods of Behavior Analysis which form the building blocks of the Competent Learner Model (CLM). You will acquire knowledge and competencies needed to provide quality behavior analytic services in a variety of settings and specialized training to utilize the CLM tools to support your work. This course is designed for students and professionals interested in becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)/Board Certified assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) and a CLM Certified Instructor/Coach and is appropriate for students and professionals in the fields of education, psychology behavior analysis and other human service fields who work in current of future CLM implementations.
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