Graduate Courses
SPED 63953 Practical Applications Birth to 5
Fromat: Online
The focus of this graduate level course is build upon recommended practices for the implementation of a quality curriculum framework as a high quality instruction model. Includes the administration and use of an authentic assessment, prioritization of learning outcomes, a tiered model of instruction, and tiered progress monitoring.
SPED 73995 Developing Meaningful and Legally Defensible IFSPs and IEPs
Format: Online
The focus of this graduate level course is to give participants an understanding of federal and state rules for developing IEPs and IFSPs for young children and their families. Participants learn how to write clear, jargon free, narrative summaries based on priority needs and to write functional and measurable IEP goals/objectives and IFSP outcomes. Participants will gain a competent level of understanding regarding how to use assessment information to identify, write, and monitor IFSP outcomes and IEP goals, and how to form partnerships with families around developing, implementing and evaluating the IFSP/IEP.
SPED 63955 Typical and Atypical Development in Young Children
Format: Fact to Face
The focus of this graduate level course is to provide an overview of typical and atypical development from birth through age eight including: traditional and modern theories of development. Emphasis on brain research, risk factors, culture, and the implications of having a disability as it relates to learning.
SPED 63958 Early Childhood Intervention Methods
Format: Fact to Face
The focus of this graduate level course is to give an overview of strategies for working with young children birth to eight with intensive and/or specific needs. The course discusses the principles of universal design for learning as the foundation for serving all children and the need for accommodations and modifications for children with more intensive needs as well as specific evidence-based practices for certain disabilities.
Fromat: Online
The focus of this graduate level course is build upon recommended practices for the implementation of a quality curriculum framework as a high quality instruction model. Includes the administration and use of an authentic assessment, prioritization of learning outcomes, a tiered model of instruction, and tiered progress monitoring.
SPED 73995 Developing Meaningful and Legally Defensible IFSPs and IEPs
Format: Online
The focus of this graduate level course is to give participants an understanding of federal and state rules for developing IEPs and IFSPs for young children and their families. Participants learn how to write clear, jargon free, narrative summaries based on priority needs and to write functional and measurable IEP goals/objectives and IFSP outcomes. Participants will gain a competent level of understanding regarding how to use assessment information to identify, write, and monitor IFSP outcomes and IEP goals, and how to form partnerships with families around developing, implementing and evaluating the IFSP/IEP.
SPED 63955 Typical and Atypical Development in Young Children
Format: Fact to Face
The focus of this graduate level course is to provide an overview of typical and atypical development from birth through age eight including: traditional and modern theories of development. Emphasis on brain research, risk factors, culture, and the implications of having a disability as it relates to learning.
SPED 63958 Early Childhood Intervention Methods
Format: Fact to Face
The focus of this graduate level course is to give an overview of strategies for working with young children birth to eight with intensive and/or specific needs. The course discusses the principles of universal design for learning as the foundation for serving all children and the need for accommodations and modifications for children with more intensive needs as well as specific evidence-based practices for certain disabilities.