SPED 434 - Literacy Interventions for Students with Disabilities

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: Spring

This course is designed to provide a basic background in interventions and materials appropriate for working with students with disabilities at the elementary through secondary level. This course is an integration of concepts fundamental to the development of literacy from birth through secondary grades. It includes a study of language development and communications skills, language arts, content area reading, mathematics, response to intervention, and the assessment and selection of appropriate instructional strategies based upon student need. Emphasis will be placed on collaborative approaches to learning and teaching, specific teaching and learning strategies, and the role of the special educator in the school community. Must make a C or better.

Prerequisite(s): SPED 300 (500). Admission to Educator Preparation Program (EPP).
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): TCED 302
Crosslisted With: SPED 634