Graduate - Clarion University

90 Clarion University of PennsylvaniaRehabilitative Sciences/Special EducationSPED 530: Learning Disabilities 3 s.h.Participants acquire knowledge and skills for designing diagnostic/prescriptive programs in perceptual-motor, cognitive,linguistic, academic, social, and career domains for individuals with specific learning disabilities.SPED 532: Policy and Practice in Special Education 3 s.h.The delivery of special education is influenced by many factors other than good teaching. Compliance with federalguidelines, ever-changing budgets, and political climates continue to act on the delivery of special education. In order forour graduate students to be able to grow as professionals, they will need to be aware of these forces and how they interactwith special education policy and service delivery.SPED 534: Workshop in Special Education 1-3 s.h.Provides practicing teachers with professional development opportunities in areas of curriculum, assessment, and instructionfor students with disabilities. Prerequisites: Teaching experience in elementary and/or secondary education and if enrolled inthe Special Education or Rehabilitative Sciences Graduate Program, permission of academic advisor.SPED 535: Advanced Methods for Individuals With Severe Handicaps 3 s.h.Participants acquire knowledge and skills related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of instructional interventionsfor individuals with severe/profound disabilities.SPED 536: Advanced Methods for Individuals With Mild/Moderate Handicaps 3 s.h.Participants acquire knowledge and skills related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of instructional interventionsfor individuals with mild/moderate disabilities.SPED 539: Curriculum Development and Educational Programming in Gifted Education 3 s.h.Provides instruction in the development, selection, and implementation of appropriate curriculum for learners who aregifted and talented. Emphasis is placed on integration of a standards-based curriculum with adaptations for learners who aregifted and talented. Topics include: curriculum models, technology, assessment methods, special populations, specializedinstructional strategies for learners who are gifted, differentiation of curriculum and instruction, and individualizedprogramming. Prerequisite: SPED 514.SPED 540: Behavior Disorders 3 s.h.Participants engage in the study of maladaptive behavior in individuals with emphasis on current definitions, classificationsystems, major etiological perspectives, and contemporary interventions.SPED 562: Service Learning 3 s.h.The course provides an overview of service-learning as a teaching methodology. History, legislation, and theory relevantto service learning is presented. Students learn the components and standards of service-learning. Students plan and implementservice-learning projects relative to these. Students also learn how to assess service-learning projects, meet curricular andlearner needs through service-learning, and develop community partners. Literature addressing the effectiveness of servicelearningas a teaching tool and the relationship of service-learning to the educational reform movement will be examined.SPED 567: Seminar in Advanced Applied Behavior Analysis 3 s.h.This seminar examines contemporary theory research, and practice in applied behavior analysis with particular emphasisgiven to applications in the fields of special education and rehabilitative sciences.