SPED 467 Characteristics of Individuals with Disabilities

This is a prekindergarten-12 introductory course for providing educational services to students with disabilities. This course will include characteristics of and current trends and issues for serving these students, basic theoretical and practical approaches, educational alternatives, implication of federal and state statutes and related services and the importance of the multidisciplinary team in providing appropriate educational programming. A minimum of 10 clock hours of field experience will be spent in observing and/or assisting with students with disabilities.