This course introduces Universal Design for Learning (UDL), an important educational philosophy and set of principles & techniques that focuses on strategies and tools to help ALL students by accommodating their differences in inclusive classroom settings. Cross-listed with SPED 4400.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course provides instructional strategies and interventions for students with a wide variety of disabilities. Implications for targeted and intensive interventions and assessment are considered. Cross-listed with SPED 4010.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course provides an overview of special education by examining the history of special education, construction of dis/ability, characteristics of individuals with disabilities, aspects of disproportionality, and introduction to evidence-based instructional practices. Cross-listed with SPED 4030.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students in the SEHD or Teacher Education minors.

Using a variety of assessment tools, students will focus on the educational assessment methods and procedures used in decision making and program planning for students with exceptional learning needs, with attention to pervasive issues pertaining to students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Cross-listed with SPED 4140.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restricted to graduate students with at least 9 credit hours of 5000-level courses or higher.

This course works to transform perspectives and practices related to supporting student behavior in classrooms. Students will learn important considerations related to culture, race, gender and socioeconomic status, as they intersect with behavior and social emotional development. Cross-listed with SPED 4151.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course is designed to provide a foundational understanding of behaviors commonly witnessed in the classroom. It will provide strategies for assessment and guidance on legal processes which guide the development of individualized education and behavior plans. Specialize instructional methods and current events impacting the social emotional educations of students will also be discussed.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Focuses on the development of competencies in consultation and collaboration. The overall purpose is to encourage the development of understanding and skills that enhance a teacher's ability to work and communicate effectively with school personnel, including paraprofessionals and parents. The goal of collaboration is to support and determine together the instructional scenarios that best meet the needs of students. Specific competencies include problem solving, conflict resolution, data collection or observation skills, conferencing, facilitating meetings, and interacting with others while respecting diverse discourses and multicultural backgrounds. Cross-listed with SPED 4300.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Designed to allow an opportunity for special educators to compare and contrast the service delivery, funding mechanisms, professional ethics, and underlying assumptions of special and regular education. Trends in the field of special education are examined through review of current research. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

This course will introduce the history and basics of ABA with a focus on its related terminology. In addition, ABA benefits will be discussed, and emphasis placed on ethical considerations required for practicing ABA as a board Certified Behavior Analyst.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course will provide a framework for the natural science of behavior. It will provide students with a systematic approach to understanding and precisely describing the behavior of individuals, and its relationship to environmental determinants.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course will introduce how to collect and interpret different types of data, and the importance of making data-driven decisions for behavior change procedures based on functional relationships.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course is designed to teach you ethical and professional conduct considerations in applied behavior analysis. We will review behavior change systems and implementation issues in the conduct of applied behavior analysis.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Student will learn to use standard celeration charts and make data-driven decisions to write appropriate behavioral plans. They will also learn to use ABA strategies to enhance communication, to support individuals with ASD, and to benefit from systems supports.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course will provide an overview of contemporary research and practice in the field of Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) in organizational settings, including but not limited to health care, behavioral health, clinical, and educational settings. Students will be introduced to the foundations of OBM during this class.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPED 5450 and SPED 5470.

This course will provide students with the knowledge necessary to implement recommended, evidence-based practices with young children with autism. The course will provide information on the etiology of autism, diagnostic procedures, evidence-based practices, and how to support families who have a young child diagnosed on the spectrum.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

The experimental analysis of behavior is a conceptual framework for the natural science of behavior. In contrast, Behaviorism is the philosophy of this science, and has been a controversial topic for the past century. Many objections arise from misconceptions about that science and the philosophy. Behaviorism and ABA will be the focus of this class.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPED 5450, SPED 5470 and SPED 5481.

Students will learn how to apply basic behavioral principles to either novel client populations or using nuanced behavioral theories, like behavioral momentum theory or behavior economics.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course provides school leaders and practitioner with an understanding of the special education transition process as specified by federal and state guidelines, as well as effective teaching and learning strategies for secondary youth with disabilities. Cross-listed with SPED 4500.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course provides a foundational understanding of the complex intersections between literacy, culture, language, learning, and students with (dis)abilities. A primary goal is to address the particular needs of culturally and linguistically diverse learners with exceptionalities, while also exploring the distinctions between language development and learning disabilities. Cross-listed with SPED 4740.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Provides the practitioner with an understanding of research-validated approaches, strategies, assessment tools and issues related to effective literacy instruction for students performing significantly below grade level. Practitioners can expect to be able to conduct thorough literacy assessments as well as be able to develop, implement, and evaluate individual reading and writing programs for individual students with the most challenging literacy needs. Cross-listed with SPED 4780.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.

The purpose of this practicum is to provide additional learning opportunities in the areas of working directly with clients / consumers, implementing evidence-based treatments to address behaviors of social significance, implementing treatment plans, and monitoring and analyzing data to make data-based decisions. Students must complete 1500 hours to meet BCBA requirements. 100 hours is equivalent to 1 credit.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Introduction to the foundations of special education leadership. Course intended for participants in the Director of Special Education endorsement program.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.