SPED 582 Intellectual Disabilities
This course is designed to focus on the characteristics of and researched strategies for teaching children, youth, and young adults with intellectual disabilities (also known as developmental or cognitive disabilities). Areas of study include terminology and etiological factors, legal parameters, assessment techniques, influence of cultural variables, current issues, and effective methods and materials of instruction. Students will learn to accommodate and modify curriculum to meet the needs of the students in their classroom. Through this course students will identify and research an area of professional practice they would like to improve and use course concepts, content knowledge, and research practices to create an action intervention plan for use in the associated practicum.