UTexas

Special Education (SED)

SED 302  Topics in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

SED 303  Autism Spectrum Disorder: Truths and Consequences  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Focus on approaches and strategies that help improve the lives of people with ASD. Examines the role research plays in what people know about various claims. Explores how research findings are communicated, and how to best translate research findings into everyday language. The equivalent of three lecture hour a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 080  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

SED 119S, 219S, 319S, 419S, 519S, 619S, 719S, 819S, 919S  Topics in Special Education  1-9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Special Education. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

SED 322C  Individual Differences  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore individual differences among people through the life span. Examine areas of exceptionality within the context of typical development: current research trends; theoretical and legal considerations; and practice-related issues, including family involvement, cultural and linguistic diversity, and educational perspectives. Applied Learning and Development 322 and Special Education 322C may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with field hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Three semester hours of coursework in psychology.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 327  Sociocultural Influences on Learning  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Discuss human learning in multisocial, multilingual, and multicultural contexts; realities of society and their impact on learning; and social concerns such as prejudice, stereotyping, cross-cultural attitudes, bilingual issues, and parent and community involvement. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352F, 372D (Topic 2), Applied Learning and Development 327, Education 327, Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic: Sociocultural Influences on Learning), Special Education 327. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with field hours to be arrangend.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 129S, 229S, 329S, 429S, 529S, 629S, 729S, 829S, 929S  Topics in Special Education  1-9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Special Education. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 332  Field Experiences in Special Education  3 Hours  

10 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Observation and participation in a variety of educational settings that serve children with disabilities. Required for all undergraduate students seeking special education certification. Two lecture hours and two four-hour sessions of fieldwork a week for one semester. Fieldwork sessions must be arranged between 8:00 AM and noon.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 337  Intercultural Communication and Collaboration  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Basic principles of interpersonal and intergroup communication in culturally and linguistically diverse educational settings. Designed to help students understand the relationship between culture, language, and disability using a variety of formats, including discussion, dialogue, journals, simulations, case studies, and field-based assignments. Required for undergraduate students seeking special education certification. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the teacher preparation program and consent of the Office of Student Field Experiences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 360R, 660R, 960R  Teaching Residency and Seminar  3,6,9 Hours  

18,36,54 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Participate in a supervised practicum in special education classroom teaching, conducted in cooperating schools, as part of the teacher preparation program including teaching, analysis, and evaluation. For each semester hour of credit earned, six lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the Professional Development Sequence and successful completion of relevant PDS coursework and field-based experiences.  
Grading: Pass/Fail  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 372  Assessment of Individuals with Mild to Moderate Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Assessment and high-stakes testing policies, procedures, and practices in special education; curriculum-based measurement used to monitor academic outcomes for students with disabilities; and principles and procedures used to reduce misidentification of individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and with limited English proficiency. Assessment data and individualized education plan development is also covered. Required for students seeking special education certification. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the teacher preparation program and consent of the Office of Student Field Experiences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 375E  Teaching Practicum and Seminar  3 Hours  

19 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore instructional practices associated with improved outcomes for students with mild to moderate disabilities receiving services in general and special education classrooms. Focus on teaching reading in content areas, such as mathematics, science, and social studies. Special Education 375C and 375E may not both be counted. Three lecture hours and sixteen to twenty internship hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the teacher preparation program and consent of the Office of Student Field Experiences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 376  Foundations and Issues in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Key issues affecting decision-making and practices by special education teachers, assessment personnel, and administrators related to the treatment and education of students with disabilities. Required for students seeking special education certification. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 377  Transition and the Exceptional Learner  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An overview of the transitions within the life span, particularly the transition to postsecondary school settings for individuals with disabilities. Designed to help students develop the ability to infuse transition-related topics into curricula, assess transition needs, develop transition plans, and become knowledgeable about existing vocational and community services. Required for students seeking special education certification. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with fieldwork to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Applied Learning and Development 322 and consent of the undergraduate adviser.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378C  Teaching Students with Intense Support Needs  3 Hours  

11 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore assessment and instructional strategies for educating students with autism and other developmental and physical disabilities. Focus on implementation and evaluation of instructional procedures for teaching a range of adaptive behaviors, such as self-care, and communication, social, and community living skills. Special Education 378S and 378C may not both be counted. Three lecture hours and eight hours of fieldwork a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the teacher preparation program and consent of the Office of Student Field Experiences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378G  Teaching Reading and Writing II  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the knowledge and skills associated with assessing, instructing, and monitoring the progress of students who experience mild to moderate difficulties with reading, as well as students with dyslexia. Focus on reading, spelling, and writing for kindergarten through grade five. Special Education 378R and 378G may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the teacher preparation program and consent of the Office of Student Field Experiences  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378I  Advanced Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

11 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Acquire in-depth knowledge of early childhood intervention, particularly related to services within the state of Texas, including an understanding of the legal policies related to serving young children with disabilities and their families. Special Education 378I and 378E may not both be counted. Three lecture hours and eight hours of fieldwork a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the teacher preparation program and consent of the Office of Student Field Experiences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378J  Assessment Practices  3 Hours  

6 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Learn assessment practices for developing and evaluating educational programs for individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. Examine the theoretical orientations that underlie the major assessment strategies, including standardized, behavioral, and informal practices. Special Education 378J and 378D may not both be counted. Three lecture hours and three hours of fieldwork a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the teacher preparation program and consent of the Office of Student Field Experiences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378T  Topics in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Varies with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Upper Division  
Topic 1: Language-Minority Students in Special Education. Additional prerequisite: Applied Learning and Development 322.

Topic 2: Advanced Early Childhood Intervention. Designed to assist students in acquiring in-depth knowledge of early childhood intervention, particularly related to services within the state of Texas, including an understanding of the legal policies related to serving young children with disabilities and their families.

Topic 3: Assessment Practices in Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Assessment practices for developing and evaluating educational programs for individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. Considers the theoretical orientations that underlie the major assessment strategies, including standardized, behavioral, and informal practices.

Topic 4: Reading Difficulties within Diverse Populations. The knowledge and skills associated with assessing, instructing, and monitoring the progress of students who experience mild to moderate difficulties with reading, as well as students with dyslexia. The emphasis is on reading, spelling, and writing for grades K-5.

Topic 5: Teaching Individuals with Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Assessment and instructional strategies for educating students with autism and other developmental and physical disabilities. Focuses on implementation and evaluation of instructional procedures for teaching a range of adaptive behaviors, such as self-care, and communication, social, and community living skills.

Topic 6: Teaching Math to Students with Disabilities. Special Education 378T (Topic: Tchng Math to Studnt Disabil) and 378T (Topic 6) may not both be counted.

Topic 7: Autism Spectrum Disorder. Explore Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) including the nature and diagnosis of ASD, available resources, and evidence-based practice service. Examine strategies implemented by professionals to help families and children navigate their environment and create a more inclusive and supportive environment for persons with ASD. Conducted in Spanish.

Topic 8: Teaching Reading and Writing I. Only one of the following may be counted: Curriculum and Instruction 370E (Topic 1), 370E (Topic 6), Special Education 378T (Topic 8).

Topic 9: Teaching Mathematics II. Only one of the following may be counted: Curriculum and Instruction 370E (Topic 5), 370E (Topic 10), Special Education 378T (Topic 9).

Topic 10: Teaching Bilingual/Multilingual Learners.

Topic 11: Positive Behavior Supports.

Topic 12: Teaching Mathematics I. Only one of the following may be counted: Special Education 378T (Topic 12), 378T (Topic 6), 378T (Topic: Teaching Mathematics I).
  

SED 378T.1  Language-Minority Students in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Pre/Corequisites: Applied Learning and Development 322.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378T.10  Teaching Bilingual/Multilingual Learners  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378T.11  Positive Behavior Supports  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378T.12  Teaching Mathematics I  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Only one of the following may be counted: Special Education 378T (Topic 12), 378T (Topic 6), 378T (Topic: Teaching Mathematics I).
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378T.7  Autism Spectrum Disorder  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) including the nature and diagnosis of ASD, available resources, and evidence-based practice service. Examine strategies implemented by professionals to help families and children navigate their environment and create a more inclusive and supportive environment for persons with ASD. Conducted in Spanish.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378T.8  Teaching Reading and Writing I  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Only one of the following may be counted: Curriculum and Instruction 370E (Topic 1), 370E (Topic 6), Special Education 378T (Topic 8).
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 378T.9  Teaching Mathematics II  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Only one of the following may be counted: Curriculum and Instruction 370E (Topic 5), 370E (Topic 10), Special Education 378T (Topic 9).
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 379  Seminar in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Specialized study in an identified area of interest in education of the exceptional child. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Applied Learning and Development 322 and consent of the undergraduate adviser.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

SED 380  Topics in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Study of critical issues in culture, language, and disability. Special Education 380 and 393 may not both be counted unless the topics vary. Special Education 380 and 395 may not both be counted unless the topics vary. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, sociology, or other behavioral sciences; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Language Acquisition and Assessment in Multicultural Special Education. Language acquisition among culturally and linguistically diverse learners in general and special education, with emphasis on effective assessment and instruction.

Topic 2: Multicultural Factors in Parent/Family Involvement. Designed to prepare students to work with parents and families from culturally diverse backgrounds; to understand the need for parent/family participation in the education of children; and to understand the transition problems faced by parents, families, and children as students move through the education system.

Topic 3: Minorities and Mental Retardation. Study of the culturally and linguistically different student.

Topic 4: Assessment in Multicultural Special Education. Cultural and linguistic factors related to the assessment of language-minority students; the best practices in psychoeducational procedures.

Topic 5: Seminar in Bilingual Special Education. Bilingual special education, including issues related to law, policy, research, and practice.

Topic 6: Advanced Research Topics in Multicultural Special Education. Current and emerging research on individuals with disabilities who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Provides students with opportunities to review research literature on topics of interest to them, and to explore their writing skills. A process approach to writing is used to familiarize students with the APA guidelines for preparing scholarly manuscripts.

Topic 7: Cross-Cultural Interactions in Multicultural Special Education. Introduction to principles of intercultural communication for educators. Emphasis on strategies for effective cross-cultural communication in a variety of educational settings, including general and special education.

Topic 8: School-Community Relations in Multicultural Special Education. Traditional methods of parent and school relations; emerging and innovative models for communication between the school and the community; the intent of the course is to explore school-community interactions in the context of the dynamics of culture, race, language, politics, history, economics, and religion.

Topic 9: Development of Personnel Preparation and Programming in Multicultural Designed to prepare students to develop standards-based multicultural personnel preparation programs that emphasize research-based practices and that improve student outcomes and promote recruitment, retention, and quality of personnel for teaching culturally and linguistically diverse populations with disabilities in pluralistic settings.

Topic 10: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education and An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education.

Topic 11: Educational Planning for Multicultural Special Education.

Topic 12: Educational Leadership in Multicultural Special Education. Overview of issues affecting equal access to quality education for culturally and linguistically diverse learners with disabilities.

Topic 13: Sociocultural Foundations of Special Education. An in-depth examination of key knowledge, including sociocultural theory and conceptual models, used in teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students with disabilities in special education and inclusive settings.

Topic 14: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education and An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education. Web-based instruction. No class meetings.

Topic 15: Addressing Critical Questions in Special Education Using National Considers how the federal government and local educational agencies collect a range of data on the educational experiences of children, including those with disabilities and special needs. Analyzes how these large datasets provide a unique opportunity to examine not only macro-level trends in identification rates, racial disparities, and student achievement, but also the influence of school and home contextual factors. Examines how to use these datasets and address important questions in special education today. Explores how to access, prepare, and analyze these datasets. Additional prerequisite: Consent of the graduate adviser.

Topic 16: Second Language Literacy Development and Assessment. Examines essential concepts related to language and literacy. Discussion of past and present sociocultural factors that impact research in terms of both what is researched and how it is researched and the implications of that research on instruction and assessment. Analyzes the socio-cultural foundations of schooling and society to better understand the complex, dynamic interrelationships between culture, language, literacy, and disability.

Topic 17: Diversity and Disability: Contemporary Perspectives.

Topic 18: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education. Special Education 380 (Topic 10) and 380 (Topic 18) may not both be counted.
  

SED 380.1  Language Acquisition and Assessment in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Language acquisition among culturally and linguistically diverse learners in general and special education, with emphasis on effective assessment and instruction.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.11  Educational Planning for Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.12  Educational Leadership in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Overview of issues affecting equal access to quality education for culturally and linguistically diverse learners with disabilities.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.13  Sociocultural Foundations of Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An in-depth examination of key knowledge, including sociocultural theory and conceptual models, used in teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students with disabilities in special education and inclusive settings.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.15  Addressing Critical Questions in Special Education Using National Datasets  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Considers how the federal government and local educational agencies collect a range of data on the educational experiences of children, including those with disabilities and special needs. Analyzes how these large datasets provide a unique opportunity to examine not only macro-level trends in identification rates, racial disparities, and student achievement, but also the influence of school and home contextual factors. Examines how to use these datasets and address important questions in special education today. Explores how to access, prepare, and analyze these datasets.
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of the graduate adviser.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.16  Second Language Literacy Development and Assessment  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines essential concepts related to language and literacy. Discussion of past and present sociocultural factors that impact research in terms of both what is researched and how it is researched and the implications of that research on instruction and assessment. Analyzes the socio-cultural foundations of schooling and society to better understand the complex, dynamic interrelationships between culture, language, literacy, and disability.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.17  Diversity and Disability: Contemporary Perspectives  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.18  Cultural and Linguistic Diversity  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education. Special Education 380 (Topic 10) and 380 (Topic 18) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.4  Assessment in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Cultural and linguistic factors related to the assessment of language-minority students; the best practices in psychoeducational procedures.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.6  Advanced Research Topics in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Current and emerging research on individuals with disabilities who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Provides students with opportunities to review research literature on topics of interest to them, and to explore their writing skills. A process approach to writing is used to familiarize students with the APA guidelines for preparing scholarly manuscripts.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.7  Cross-Cultural Interactions in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduction to principles of intercultural communication for educators. Emphasis on strategies for effective cross-cultural communication in a variety of educational settings, including general and special education.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.8  School-Community Relations in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Traditional methods of parent and school relations; emerging and innovative models for communication between the school and the community; the intent of the course is to explore school-community interactions in the context of the dynamics of culture, race, language, politics, history, economics, and religion.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 380.9  Development of Personnel Preparation and Programming in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Designed to prepare students to develop standards-based multicultural personnel preparation programs that emphasize research-based practices and that improve student outcomes and promote recruitment, retention, and quality of personnel for teaching culturally and linguistically diverse populations with disabilities in pluralistic settings.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 383  Topics in Learning Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Nature of the characteristics of learning disabilities and their effect on learning; assessment and progress monitoring measures; and individualized, differentiated strategies, interventions, technologies, and materials. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences, including a course in special education; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Introduction to Learning Disabilities. Basic terms and definitions, the nature of specific learning disorders, theoretical models, and empirical classification systems.

Topic 2: Clinical Procedures in Learning Disabilities. Supervised field practice in diagnosis and/or treatment of specific learning disorders. Additional prerequisite: Special Education 383 (Topic 1).

Topic 3: Assessment of Learning Disabilities. The rationale for and the administration of procedures for the modification of learning behavior on an individualized or prescriptive basis. Additional prerequisite: Special Education 383 (Topic 1).

Topic 4: Research Internship in Learning Disabilities. A laboratory and field course designed to test new instructional approaches to education by working directly with children in classroom or remedial settings.

Topic 5: Experimental Approaches to Learning Disabilities. Investigation, critique, and creativity of learning systems in students with multiple developmental disabilities; methodologies analyzed in accordance with learning characteristics and theories.

Topic 6: Teaching Students with Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties. Theories and practices associated with dyslexia; terminology, assessment, and remedial strategies are emphasized.

Topic 7: Assessment in Special Education. The basic concepts related to the assessment of exceptional individuals.

Topic 8: Instructional Adaptations I. Design, implementation, and evaluation of instruction for elementary- and secondary-level students with mild to moderate disabilities who receive special education services.

Topic 9: Instructional Adaptations II. Issues in the education of students with mild to moderate disabilities, including assessing students, evaluating instruction and instructional materials, and adapting and implementing instruction.

Topic 10: Intensive Interventions for Students with Reading Disabilities. Design, implementation, and evaluation of instruction for elementary- and secondary-level students with mild to moderate disabilities who receive special education services for reading. Special Education 383 (Topic 8) and 383 (Topic 10) may not both be counted.

Topic 11: Intensive Interventions for Students with Math Disabilities. Issues in the education of students with mild to moderate disabilities, including assessing students, evaluating instruction and instructional materials, and adapting and implementing instruction with an emphasis on math. Special Education 383 (Topic 9) and 383 (Topic 11) may not both be counted.

Topic 12: Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities.
  

SED 383.1  Introduction to Learning Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Basic terms and definitions, the nature of specific learning disorders, theoretical models, and empirical classification systems.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 383.10  Intensive Interventions for Students with Reading Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Design, implementation, and evaluation of instruction for elementary- and secondary-level students with mild to moderate disabilities who receive special education services for reading. Special Education 383 (Topic 8) and 383 (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 383.11  Intensive Interventions for Students with Math Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Issues in the education of students with mild to moderate disabilities, including assessing students, evaluating instruction and instructional materials, and adapting and implementing instruction with an emphasis on math. Special Education 383 (Topic 9) and 383 (Topic 11) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 383.12  Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 383.6  Teaching Students with Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Theories and practices associated with dyslexia; terminology, assessment, and remedial strategies are emphasized.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 383.7  Assessment in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The basic concepts related to the assessment of exceptional individuals.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 383C, 983C  High Incidence Disabled Student Teaching  3,9 Hours  

3,9 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Nature of the characteristics of learning disabilities and their effect on learning; assessment and progress monitoring measures; and individualized, differentiated strategies, interventions, technologies, and materials. For each hour of credit earned, one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences, including a course in special education; and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384  Topics in Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Education variables related to educational services and research for young children are investigated in terms of etiology, assessment, curriculum models, educational settings, and interdisciplinary programming. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences, including a course in special education; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Overview of Early Childhood Special Education. The educational and emotional needs of young disabled children (birth to age six) and the techniques for implementing a "whole child educational approach to meet the needs of the child and the family.

Topic 2: Current Research in Early Childhood Special Education. Latest ECSED research and theory as related to past, present, and anticipated trends. Emphasis is on writing a program, research proposal, or publishable article.

Topic 3: Parent Education Models. The grief stages of parents; parent involvement models available to promote optimum parent-child and parent-professional relationships.

Topic 4: Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education. Teaching experience with disabled children in a center setting. Assessment and curriculum procedures are applied in developing an appropriate education for an individual child or small groups of children.

Topic 5: Advanced Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education. Teaching experience with a large group of children in a center setting. Program management and evaluation procedures are applied to a total curriculum, so that the student assumes a lead teacher and/or consultant role during training.

Topic 6: Assessment and Programming of Early Childhood Special Education. Experience in assessing a disabled child in a naturalistic setting. Formal and informal assessment procedures for children from birth through age six.

Topic 7: Medical/Educational Overview: Birth to Age Three. Overview of hospital-to-school early intervention techniques for meeting the medical and educational needs of preterm, low-birth-weight, and at-risk children and their parents.

Topic 8: Medical/Educational Parent Education and Involvement: Birth to Age Research, design, and implementation of a functional child-parent program. Students develop their own programs for working with parents of children with specific problems or disabilities.

Topic 9: Medical/Educational Assessment: Birth to Age Three. Experience planning, assessing, and implementing educational programs for at-risk infants and toddlers. Emphasis is on interagency coordination and the use of the transdisciplinary team to meet the family's and the child's needs with a minimum of personnel.

Topic 10: Medical/Educational Programming: Birth to Age Three. Medical information on pre-, peri-, and postnatal effects of medical problems and extended hospital stays. Impact of medical intervention on the infant's and the family's development.

Topic 11: Medical/Educational Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education. Early intervention in a neonatal intensive care unit or on a follow-up team for medically fragile high-risk children.

Topic 12: Overview of Early Childhood Special Education. The educational and emotional needs of young disabled children (birth to age six) and the techniques for implementing a "whole child" educational approach to meet the needs of the child and the family. Web-based instruction. No class meetings.

Topic 13: Early Language Intervention.

Topic 14: Family Support and Intervention.

Topic 15: Assessment and Programming of Early Childhood Special Education. Experience in assessing a disabled child in a naturalistic setting. Formal and informal assessment procedures for children from birth through age six. Web-based instruction. No class meetings.

Topic 16: Medical and Educational Assessment and Intervention.

Topic 17: Functional Motor and Vision Assessment and Intervention.
  

SED 384.1  Overview of Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The educational and emotional needs of young disabled children (birth to age six) and the techniques for implementing a "whole child educational approach to meet the needs of the child and the family.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.10  Medical/Educational Programming: Birth to Age Three  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Medical information on pre-, peri-, and postnatal effects of medical problems and extended hospital stays. Impact of medical intervention on the infant's and the family's development.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.11  Medical/Educational Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Early intervention in a neonatal intensive care unit or on a follow-up team for medically fragile high-risk children.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.13  Early Language Intervention  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.14  Family Support and Intervention  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.16  Medical and Educational Assessment and Intervention  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.17  Functional Motor and Vision Assessment and Intervention  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.3  Parent Education Models  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The grief stages of parents; parent involvement models available to promote optimum parent-child and parent-professional relationships.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.4  Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Teaching experience with disabled children in a center setting. Assessment and curriculum procedures are applied in developing an appropriate education for an individual child or small groups of children.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.5  Advanced Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Teaching experience with a large group of children in a center setting. Program management and evaluation procedures are applied to a total curriculum, so that the student assumes a lead teacher and/or consultant role during training.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.6  Assessment and Programming of Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Experience in assessing a disabled child in a naturalistic setting. Formal and informal assessment procedures for children from birth through age six.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.7  Medical/Educational Overview: Birth to Age Three  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Overview of hospital-to-school early intervention techniques for meeting the medical and educational needs of preterm, low-birth-weight, and at-risk children and their parents.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.8  Medical/Educational Parent Education and Involvement: Birth to Age Three  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Research, design, and implementation of a functional child-parent program. Students develop their own programs for working with parents of children with specific problems or disabilities.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384.9  Medical/Educational Assessment: Birth to Age Three  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Experience planning, assessing, and implementing educational programs for at-risk infants and toddlers. Emphasis is on interagency coordination and the use of the transdisciplinary team to meet the family's and the child's needs with a minimum of personnel.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 384T  Topics in Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the nature of the characteristics of learning disabilities and their effect on learning; assessment and progress monitoring measures; and individualized, differentiated strategies, interventions, technologies, and materials. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences, including a course in special education; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Master's  

SED 386  Topics in Behavioral Disorders  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Discussion of behavioral disorders, contributory factors; psychological and educational diagnoses applied to educational programming. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences, including a course in special education; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Seminar: Behavioral Disorders.

Topic 2: Behavioral Disorders and Juvenile Delinquency. Lectures, audiovisual materials, class activities, and field trips provide information on problems in teaching the behaviorally disordered and juvenile delinquent. The student also designs and conducts an independent study.

Topic 3: Educational Problems of Emotional Disturbance and Autism. Characteristics, etiology, and treatment of autism, a severely incapacitating, lifelong disorder that develops early in childhood; implications for instructional practices.

Topic 4: Crisis Management. Techniques for preventing crises and for managing those that do occur. Lectures, videotape presentations, and active practice help students develop plans for managing crises, predicting crisis behavior, managing disruptive, out-of-control, and aggressive students, and counseling students after a crisis.

Topic 5: Counseling Approaches with the Emotionally Disturbed.

Topic 6: Psycho-Educational Procedures. A methods course for those preparing to teach students who are emotionally disturbed, behaviorally disordered, or autistic. Emphasis is on topics relevant to the educational process, including assessment/evaluation, behavior management, classroom organization, instructional techniques, and curricula. Active participation in and outside of class is expected.

Topic 7: Parent Involvement.

Topic 8: Practicum: The Mildly Disturbed. Supervised, field-based observation and experience with the mildly disturbed.

Topic 9: Advanced Practicum: The Severely Disturbed. Supervised, field-based observation and experience with the severely disturbed.

Topic 10: Introduction to Behavioral Disorders. Introduction to the nature and needs of children with behavior disorders and to effective management methods and teaching strategies. The admission, review, and dismissal process is described and practiced so that students can work as members of an interdisciplinary team.

Topic 11: Positive Behavioral Interventions Support and Classroom Management. Study of the basic principles of human behavior, and the application of those principles to teaching positive behavior support and designing effective classrooms. Designed to prepare teachers and clinicians who will be in general and special education settings with children of all ages with and without disabilities.

Topic 12: Designing Effective Systems of Behavioral Support in Schools.

Topic 13: Educating Students with Significant Behavioral Support Needs. Designed to provide students with an overview of promising and preferred practices for educating children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Emphasis on children and youth whose behaviors challenge the prevailing social and educational traditions and values of schools, communities, and families.
  

SED 386.10  Introduction to Behavioral Disorders  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduction to the nature and needs of children with behavior disorders and to effective management methods and teaching strategies. The admission, review, and dismissal process is described and practiced so that students can work as members of an interdisciplinary team.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 386.11  Positive Behavioral Interventions Support and Classroom Management  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Study of the basic principles of human behavior, and the application of those principles to teaching positive behavior support and designing effective classrooms. Designed to prepare teachers and clinicians who will be in general and special education settings with children of all ages with and without disabilities.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 386.13  Educating Students with Significant Behavioral Support Needs  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Designed to provide students with an overview of promising and preferred practices for educating children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Emphasis on children and youth whose behaviors challenge the prevailing social and educational traditions and values of schools, communities, and families.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 386C  Topics in Trends and Issues in Learning Disabilities and Behavioral Disorders  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An examination of current trends and issues in areas within special education and rehabilitation counselor education that influence policies and procedures in the public schools, teacher preparation programs, and community agencies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, sociology, or other behavioral sciences; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Master's  

SED 388  Topics in Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An intensive study of the psychological, sociological, physiological, and educational factors relating to the assessment, learning, and teaching of children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Includes affective, cognitive, and psychomotor development of individuals with physical disabilities. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences, including a course in special education; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Learning Theory and Multiple Developmental Disabilities. Translation of major learning theories into instructional practice with various populations of children with multiple disabilities. Analysis of current practices in relation to learning styles.

Topic 2: Diagnosis and Assessment of Multiple Developmental Disabilities. Analysis of the development of formal and informal assessment procedures used with children and youth with multiple developmental disabilities. Instrumentation administration and interpretation of results in relation to instructional techniques. Field experience is included.

Topic 3: Teaching Individuals with Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Development of highly specialized skills needed to teach those with developmental disabilities. Emphasis is on the basic principles of learning that underlie effective instructional strategies and on ways to structure the environment to promote learning.

Topic 4: Advanced Studies: Severe/Profound Multiple Developmental Disabilities. Critical review of current literature on community inclusion of people with severe/profound disabilities, covering regular education inclusion, community living inclusion, and employment inclusion. Evaluation of the personal and environmental elements necessary for successful inclusion into the community. Students design studies related to the central topic.

Topic 5: Enhancing Communication Potential in People with Autism and Communication intervention for those with developmental disabilities. Designed to help students learn to assess communication behavior and to create intervention programs that enhance existing communication skills and teach new skills. Hands-on experience with a variety of augmentative and alternative communication systems.

Topic 6: Educational Implications of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Introduction to the learning and behavioral characteristics of those with developmental disabilities, including autism and related developmental disorders. Designed to give students an understanding of the educational needs of those with developmental disabilities and of ways to address those needs through special education and related services.

Topic 7: Challenging Behavior and Developmental Disabilities. The nature, assessment, and treatment of the challenging behaviors that are prevalent in individuals with developmental disabilities, such as aggression, self-injury, property destruction, tantrums, and stereotyped movements.

Topic 8: Research on Inclusion for Students with Autism and Developmental Literature relevant to the inclusion of students with developmental disabilities, including classic readings on the history and philosophy of inclusion; analysis of the evidence supporting current best-practice models. Emphasis on critical reading of empirical studies on the efficacy of inclusive education.

Topic 9: Assessment Research in Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Research related to the assessment of students with developmental disabilities, examined in the context of the theoretical orientations that underlie the major assessment strategies. Includes a review of studies related to the development and validation of contemporary assessment instruments and discussion of the scientific process involved in developing and validating assessment tools.

Topic 10: Advances in the Understanding and Treatment of Autism. Review of recent advances in the understanding and treatment of autism and related developmental disorders. The social forces that shape research and scientific understanding and the political forces that influence the delivery of education and related services, as well as implications for effective leadership in special education.

Topic 11: Intervention Research in Autism and Developmental Disabilities. How research is used to develop interventions for those with developmental disabilities. Students consider the role of basic research and theory in the development of interventions and the use of experimental design to demonstrate the effectiveness of an intervention program, explore the development of empirically validated intervention programs, and undertake qualitative and quantitative reviews of intervention research.

Topic 12: Challenging Behavior and Developmental Disabilities. The nature, assessment, and treatment of the challenging behaviors that are prevalent in individuals with severe and multiple disabilities such as aggression, self-injury, property destruction, tantrums, and stereotyped movements. Web-based instruction. No class meetings.

Topic 13: Practicum in Severe and Multiple Disabilities.

Topic 14: Practicum in Professional & Ethical Practices.
  

SED 388.10  Advances in the Understanding and Treatment of Autism  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Review of recent advances in the understanding and treatment of autism and related developmental disorders. The social forces that shape research and scientific understanding and the political forces that influence the delivery of education and related services, as well as implications for effective leadership in special education.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.11  Intervention Research in Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
How research is used to develop interventions for those with developmental disabilities. Students consider the role of basic research and theory in the development of interventions and the use of experimental design to demonstrate the effectiveness of an intervention program, explore the development of empirically validated intervention programs, and undertake qualitative and quantitative reviews of intervention research.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.13  Practicum in Severe and Multiple Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.14  Practicum in Professional Ethical Practices  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.3  Teaching Individuals with Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Development of highly specialized skills needed to teach those with developmental disabilities. Emphasis is on the basic principles of learning that underlie effective instructional strategies and on ways to structure the environment to promote learning.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.5  Enhancing Communication Potential in People with Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Communication intervention for those with developmental disabilities. Designed to help students learn to assess communication behavior and to create intervention programs that enhance existing communication skills and teach new skills. Hands-on experience with a variety of augmentative and alternative communication systems.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.6  Educational Implications of Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduction to the learning and behavioral characteristics of those with developmental disabilities, including autism and related developmental disorders. Designed to give students an understanding of the educational needs of those with developmental disabilities and of ways to address those needs through special education and related services.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.7  Challenging Behavior and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The nature, assessment, and treatment of the challenging behaviors that are prevalent in individuals with developmental disabilities, such as aggression, self-injury, property destruction, tantrums, and stereotyped movements.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.8  Research on Inclusion for Students with Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Literature relevant to the inclusion of students with developmental disabilities, including classic readings on the history and philosophy of inclusion; analysis of the evidence supporting current best-practice models. Emphasis on critical reading of empirical studies on the efficacy of inclusive education.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 388.9  Assessment Research in Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Research related to the assessment of students with developmental disabilities, examined in the context of the theoretical orientations that underlie the major assessment strategies. Includes a review of studies related to the development and validation of contemporary assessment instruments and discussion of the scientific process involved in developing and validating assessment tools.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 389  Topics in Special Education Administration  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Study of the content and process of special education administration, including technological forecasting methods, case law as it applies to people with disabilities, management of problem employee styles, and related topics. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences, including a course in special education; and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Administration of Special Education Programs. Application of principles of administration and leadership to problems associated with special education and instruction for special populations.

Topic 2: Educational Futures. Students are directed toward career goals: affective change toward the future and change processes; acquisition of knowledge about several technological forecasting methods and of skill in the use of one method.

Topic 3: Special Education Administration Seminar: Current Issues in

Topic 4: Law and Disabilities. An examination of case law that covers definitions, equal educational opportunity, employment, accessibility, freedom of choice, freedom from residential confinement, housing and zoning restrictions, equal access to medical services, procreation, marriage, children, contracts, ownership and transfer of property, voting, and holding public office.

Topic 5: Special Populations. Leadership issues associated with serving school-age children through federal and state "title" programs, including English as a second language, bilingual education, and Chapters I and II. Also covered are alternative schools; programs for juvenile offenders, pregnant students and young mothers, and at-risk students such as those who have potential for suicide; and services for the homeless, the abused, and chemical abusers. Students read the significant literature and develop knowledge and skill in planning and designing delivery models.
  

SED 389.1  Administration of Special Education Programs  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Application of principles of administration and leadership to problems associated with special education and instruction for special populations.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 389.2  Educational Futures  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Students are directed toward career goals: affective change toward the future and change processes; acquisition of knowledge about several technological forecasting methods and of skill in the use of one method.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 389.3  Special Education Administration Seminar: Current Issues in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 389.4  Law and Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An examination of case law that covers definitions, equal educational opportunity, employment, accessibility, freedom of choice, freedom from residential confinement, housing and zoning restrictions, equal access to medical services, procreation, marriage, children, contracts, ownership and transfer of property, voting, and holding public office.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 389.5  Special Populations  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Leadership issues associated with serving school-age children through federal and state "title" programs, including English as a second language, bilingual education, and Chapters I and II. Also covered are alternative schools; programs for juvenile offenders, pregnant students and young mothers, and at-risk students such as those who have potential for suicide; and services for the homeless, the abused, and chemical abusers. Students read the significant literature and develop knowledge and skill in planning and designing delivery models.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 393  Topics in Special Education: Graduate Seminar  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Discussion of critical issues; critiques of literature; development of theories and models regarding disabling conditions. Special Education 380 and 393 may not both be counted unless the topics vary. The equivalent of three class hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, or other behavioral sciences; and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Developmental Disabilities and Differences.

Topic 2: Diagnostic and Instructional Assessment.

Topic 3: Instructional Adaptations.

Topic 4: Behavior Management.

Topic 5: Applied Research in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling.

Topic 6: General Special Education.

Topic 7: Bilingual Special Education.

Topic 8: Special Education/English as a Second Language.

Topic 9: Doctoral Professional Seminar I.

Topic 10: Doctoral Professional Seminar II.

Topic 11: Language Acquisition and Assessment of Exceptional Culturally and

Topic 12: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education and An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education.

Topic 13: Issues in Special Education. Issues and challenges affecting decision-making and practices by special education teachers, general education teachers, assessment personnel, and school administrators in the treatment and education of students with disabilities. The primary goal is to advance students' understanding of the contributions of history, legislation, policy, research, practice, and recent trends as they apply to the resolution of major issues in special education and programs for students with disabilities.

Topic 14: Assessment in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling. The basic concepts related to the assessment of exceptional individuals.

Topic 15: Instructional Adaptations I. Design, implementation, and evaluation of instruction for elementary- and secondary-level students with mild to moderate disabilities who receive special education services.

Topic 16: Instructional Adaptations II. Issues in the education of students with mild to moderate disabilities, including assessing students, evaluating instruction and instructional materials, and adapting and implementing instruction.

Topic 17: Instructional Designs Using Assistive Technology. The design of instruction for students with disabilities by using assistive and instructional technologies.

Topic 18: Collaboration. Strategies such as collaborative consultation and teamwork models, which are used to improve learning outcomes for students with diverse learning needs.

Topic 19: Applied Research in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling. Web-based instruction. No class meetings.

Topic 20: Applied Research. Special Education 393 (Topic 5) and 393 (Topic 20) may not both be counted.
  

SED 393.17  Instructional Designs Using Assistive Technology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The design of instruction for students with disabilities by using assistive and instructional technologies.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 393.18  Collaboration  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Strategies such as collaborative consultation and teamwork models, which are used to improve learning outcomes for students with diverse learning needs.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 393.20  Applied Research  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Special Education 393 (Topic 5) and 393 (Topic 20) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 394, 694  Practicum in Special Education  3,6 Hours  

3,6 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Supervised field placement in specialized settings serving exceptional children and youth. Conference course; for each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395, 695, 995  Topics in Independent Study  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Individual research planned, executed, and reported under supervision. Special Education 380 and 395 may not both be counted unless the topics vary. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to an approved program of graduate study or to candidacy for the doctoral degree in education, or graduate standing and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Independent Study in Special Education Administration.

Topic 2: Independent Study in Behavioral Disorders.

Topic 3: Mental Retardation.

Topic 4: Independent Study in Learning Disabilities.

Topic 5: Individual Instruction in Visual Disabilities.

Topic 6: Independent Study in Rehabilitation Counseling.

Topic 7: Independent Study in Early Childhood Special Education.

Topic 8: Independent Study in Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

Topic 9: Research Methodology in Special Education.

Topic 10: Computer Data Analysis in Special Education.

Topic 11: Individual Instruction in General Special Education.

Topic 12: Gifted and Talented.

Topic 13: Individual Instruction in Bilingual Special Education.

Topic 14: Individual Instruction in Special Education/English as a Second

Topic 15: Independent Study in Multicultural Special Education.

Topic 16: The Bilingual Child in Special Education.
  

SED 395.1, 695.1, 995.1  Independent Study in Special Education Administration  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395.15, 695.15, 995.15  Independent Study in Multicultural Special Education  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395.2, 695.2, 995.2  Independent Study in Behavioral Disorders  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395.4, 695.4, 995.4  Independent Study in Learning Disabilities  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395.7, 695.7, 995.7  Independent Study in Early Childhood Special Education  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395.8, 695.8, 995.8  Independent Study in Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395D  Topics in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counselor: Doctoral Seminar  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to an approved program of graduate study or to candidacy for the doctoral degree in education, and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Special Education Administration.

Topic 2: Seminar in Behavioral Disorders.

Topic 3: Seminar in Learning Disabilities.

Topic 4: Rehabilitation Counseling.

Topic 5: Early Childhood Special Education.

Topic 6: Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

Topic 7: Multicultural Special Education.
  

SED 395D.2  Seminar in Behavioral Disorders  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395D.3  Seminar in Learning Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395D.5  Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395D.6  Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 395D.7  Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 695S  Professional Seminar  6 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Forum for students to become familiar with the areas of study, research, and professional practice within special education. Students also refine their professional writing and communication skills, critically evaluate current and emerging research in the field, and examine the historical, legal, philosophical, and theoretical foundations of special education. Required of all doctoral students. Three lecture hours a week for two semesters.
Pre/Corequisites: For 695SA, graduate standing and admission to the doctoral program in special education; for 695SB, Special Education 695SA.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 696  Research Mentoring  6 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Designed to develop the knowledge and skills students need in order to conduct research. Under the supervision of a three-member committee, students develop a publishable-quality synthesis of the professional literature on a topic related to their research interests. Required of all doctoral students prior to admission to candidacy. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: For Special Education 696A, graduate standing, completion of specialization core requirements, at least three graduate courses in research methods and data analysis, and consent of the graduate adviser; for Special Education 696B, 696A.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396C  Topics in Trends and Issues in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An examination of current trends and issues in areas within special education and rehabilitation counselor education that influence policies and procedures in the public schools, teacher preparation programs, and community agencies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, sociology, or other behavioral sciences; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Special Education.

Topic 2: Trends and Issues in Learning Disabilities/Behavioral Disorders.

Topic 3: Trends and Issues in Multicultural Special Education.

Topic 4: Trends and Issues in Rehabilitation Counselor Education.

Topic 5: Trends and Issues in Special Education Administration.

Topic 6: Classic Writings in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling. The history of special education through the examination of classic writings in special education and rehabilitation counseling.

Topic 7: Trends and Issues in Autism and Developmental Disabilities.
  

SED 396C.1  Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396C.2  Trends and Issues in Learning Disabilities/Behavioral Disorders  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396C.5  Trends and Issues in Special Education Administration  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396C.7  Trends and Issues in Autism and Developmental Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396R  Topics in Research Methods and Data Analysis  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing, twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Research Methodology in Special Education.

Topic 2: Single-Subject Research Design. The use of single-subject research designs to make data-based decisions about program effectiveness and student outcomes; integration of applied research into classroom instruction as part of evidence-based professional practice in educating students with severe and multiple disabilities.

Topic 3: Advanced Data Analysis in Special Education.
  

SED 396R.1  Research Methodology in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396R.2  Single-Subject Research Design  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The use of single-subject research designs to make data-based decisions about program effectiveness and student outcomes; integration of applied research into classroom instruction as part of evidence-based professional practice in educating students with severe and multiple disabilities.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396R.3  Advanced Data Analysis in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396T  Directed Research in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing, twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Directed Research in Special Education Administration.

Topic 2: Directed Research in Behavioral Disorders.

Topic 3: Mental Retardation.

Topic 4: Directed Research in Learning Disabilities.

Topic 5: Visual Disabilities.

Topic 6: Directed Research in Rehabilitation Counseling.

Topic 7: Directed Research in Early Childhood Special Education.

Topic 8: Directed Research in Severe and Multiple Disabilities.

Topic 9: General Special Education.

Topic 10: Gifted and Talented.

Topic 11: Bilingual Special Education.

Topic 12: Special Education/English as a Second Language.

Topic 13: Directed Research in Multicultural Special Education.
  

SED 396T.1  Directed Research in Special Education Administration  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396T.13  Directed Research in Multicultural Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396T.2  Directed Research in Behavioral Disorders  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396T.4  Directed Research in Learning Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396T.7  Directed Research in Early Childhood Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 396T.8  Directed Research in Severe and Multiple Disabilities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 397C  Advanced College Teaching  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Supervised teaching experience at the college level. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing, admission to an approved program of graduate study or admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree in special education, Special Education 398T, and consent of the graduate adviser.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 397P, 697P  Graduate Internship  3,6 Hours  

3,6 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Supervised practice in a professional position. The equivalent of three or six lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing, twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Topic 1: Administration of Special Education.

Topic 2: Emotional Disturbance.

Topic 3: Mental Retardation.

Topic 4: Learning Disabilities.

Topic 5: Visual Disabilities.

Topic 6: Rehabilitation Counseling.

Topic 7: Early Childhood Special Education.

Topic 8: Developmental Disabilities.

Topic 9: General Special Education.

Topic 10: Gifted and Talented.

Topic 11: Bilingual Special Education.

Topic 12: Special Education/English as a Second Language.

Topic 13: Multicultural Special Education.
  

SED 397S  Supervised Teaching in Special Education  3 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Instruction in the supervision of student teachers and observers at the undergraduate level. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing, appointment as a teaching assistant and supervisor of undergraduate student teachers, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 698  Thesis  6 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for two semesters.
Pre/Corequisites: For 698A, graduate standing in special education and consent of the supervising professor and the graduate adviser; for 698B, Special Education 698A.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Master's  

SED 398R  Master's Report  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in special education and consent of the graduate adviser.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Master's  

SED 398T  College Teaching in Special Education  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Required for teaching assistants and assistant instructors. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

SED 399W, 699W, 999W  Dissertation  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Doctoral