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Apr 29, 2024
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Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EDUC& 203 Exceptional Child3 credits
This course examines the educational, social, and developmental patterns of children with special needs. Students explore the impact of disabilities on children, on families, and on their futures. Students will access local resources available to teachers and families.
Prerequisites: ABED 040 and ABED 046 or placement scores.
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Describe the history and philosophy of special education in the United States
- Describe the primary conditions for which children need additional support for optimal development and learning
- Explain the process used to identify children with special needs
- Explain the purpose and components of the IEP and an IFSP
- Identify and describe different intervention programs designed for children with special needs and local resources available to children and their families
- Identify professional and ethical guidelines for early childhood special educators
- Identify, research and apply effective ways to work with children with disabilities and their families
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:
- be prepared to create a learning environment that fosters language, social, cognitive, and motor skills in young children
- be prepared to communicate in verbal and written format with the parents
Total Hours: 30 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 30
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