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MEMORANDUM
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SENATE
FACULTY OF EDUCATION - NEW COURSE
Subject
PROPOSAL - EDUCATION
424-4
LEARNING
DISABILITIES: LABORATORY
MOTION: ?
"That Senate approve, as set forth in
S.73-143,
the
new course proposal for Education
424-4 -
Learning
Disabilities: Laboratory."
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION - NEW COURSE
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NOVEMBER 14 1973.
PROPOSAL, EDUCATION 424-4 - LEARNING
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On the recommendation of the Faculty of Education,
the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies has
approved the new course proposal, - as set forth
in SCUS 73-40 - for Education 424-4, Learning
Disabilities: Laboratory, and recommends approval
to Senate.
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MEMORANDUM
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H. M. EVANS
SECRETARY OF SCUS
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OCTOBER 31. 1973
SENATE COMMITTEE ON
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION NEW COURSE
PROPOSAL - EDUC.424-4 LEARNING
DISABILITIES
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LABORATORY
The Faculty of Education has submitted for
consideration the attached new course proposal
Educ.424-4 - Learning Disabilities : Laboratory.
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
PROPOSAL FOR NEW COURSE
Educ. 424-4
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Learning Disabilities : Laboratory
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PROPOSAL FOR NEW COURSE
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CALENDAR INFORMATION
Department :
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Education
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Educ.
Course Number :
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424
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4
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Title of Course : Learning Disabilities : Laboratory
Calendar Description of Course
Development and evaluation of precise teaching skills
for the treatment of children with learning disabilities.
A laboratory experience in analysis and design of
learning materials for children with learning
disabilities.
Nature of course : Seminar/laboratory.
Prerequisites (or special instructions)
Educ. 422-4 (Learning Disabilities) will
ordinarily be taken concurrently.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the
calendar if this course is approved:
None
2.
SCHEDULING
How frequently will the course be offered?
Once yearly (Summer Semester)
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Semester
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which the course will first be offered
1975 - 2
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the
proposed offering possible?
Leone M. Prock
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
(a) ?
Educ. 424-4 is designed to provide regular classroom teachers
with a level of competence sufficient for the non-clinical
treatment of children with learning disabilities. Emphases
of the course, in terms of contents, assignments, discussions
laboratory experiences and references, will be upon those
procedures of instructional programming that may maximally
increase the achievement levels of learning disabled children.
One function of Educ. 424-4 is to provide a laboratory-based
experience that will effectively synthesize the previous
field experiences (Educ. 405-15) of students enrolled in the
minor in Learning Disabilities. The course will be open to
"Non-Minor s " students, also; and for that group, as well as
for Minor students, Educ. 424 will form a practical complement
to Educ. 422-4, Learning Disabilities.
Educ. 424-4 will include the following major topics, each
category of approximate equivalence in emphasis
Precision teaching, (Alper & White, 1971)
Task analysis
Procedures for instructional programing
Alternative methods for securing learning
Curriculum adjustment
Classroom management for children with learning
disabilities
Selection, analysis and evaluation of instructional
materials
Formation and testing of diagnostic hypotheses in
relation to learning disabilities
Data management: collection and assessment of information
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on learning; and instructional accommodation of assessments
of learning disabilities
"Invention" of techniques for individual treatments of
learning disabilities
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A sample bibliography for Educ. 424-4 is attached.
(b)
Statement of how the objectives and content of Educ. 424-4
fit into the program in which the course is to be included
Educ. 424-4 will be a required course for credit for the
Minor in Learning Disabilities for the B. Ed. degree.
Also, Educ. 424-4 is a necessary complement to the current
course offered in the field of learning disabilities, (Educ. 422-4.)
(c)
Statement of the extent to which, if any, the objectives and
content of the proposed course overlap with those of other
courses already existing in the University
A course similar to the proposed Educ. 424-4 does not exist in
the University.
It is appropriate that the distinction between Educ. 422-4
(Learning Disabilities) and Educ. 424-4 (Learning Disabilities.
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Educ. 424-4 is designed to promote the technology of learning
disabilities, (i.e., the development of specific instructional
arrangements that will accommodate the learning of children
with learning disabilities in the regular classroom). In
contrast, Educ. 422-4 provides aconceptual framework, inclusive
of: the nature of learning disabilities; general techniques for
identification and diagnosis of learning disabilities; and
clinical treatments of learning disabilities. (Documents re
Educ. 422-4, 1973-2, are available.)
Educ. 422-4 and Educ. 424-4 are different, but complementary
Courses. The content of Educ. 424-4 is dependent upon the
more theoretical structure of Educ. 422. Hence, Educ. 422-4 is
required as either a pre- or co-requisite of Educ. 424-4.
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4. BUDGETARY AND SPACE REQUIREMENTS
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty:
None
Staff:
None
Library:
None
Audio-Visual:
None
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None
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APPROVAL
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October 3, 1973
fl.S. O'Connell
Dept. Chairman
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SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR EDUC. 424-4
Alper, T.G. and White, O.R. Precision teaching: A tool for the
psychologist and teacher. J. of School Psychol.,
1971, 9, No. 4, 446-454.
Benton, A.L. Behavioral indices of brain injury in school children.
Child Development, 1962, 33, 199-208.
Bush, W. J. and Giles, M. T. Aids to psycholinguistic teaching.
Kephart Slow Learners series: C.E. Merrill Pub. Co.,
Columbus, Ohio. 1969.
Capobianco, R. J. Diagnostic methods used with learning disability
cases. Exceptional Children, XXXI, 1965, 188-193.
Cochran, E.V. Teach and reach that child. Peek Publics, Palo Alto,
Calif., 1971.
Cratty, B. J. Developmental sequences of perceptual motor tasks.
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Educ. Activities Inc.,. Baldwin, N.Y., 1967.
Deterline, W. A. An Introductionto programed instruction.
Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Farrald, R. R. and Schamber, R. G. Handbook I : A mainstream approach
to identification, assessment and amelioration of learning
disabilities. Adapt Press, S. D., 1973.
Fernald, C. Remedial techniques in basic school subjects. McGraw-Hill,
N. Y., 1943.
Getman, G. N., et al. Developing learning readiness. McGraw-Hill,
Webster Div., Mo., 1968.
Gillingham, A. and Stillman, B. W. Remedial training for children with
specific difficulty in reading, spelling and penmanship.
7th. ed., Educators Public Service, 1965.
Hegge, T. C., Kirk, S. A. and Kirk, W. Remedial reading drills.
George Wahr Public Co., Ann Arbor, 1969.
Hewett, F. A hierarchy of educational tasks for children with learning
disabilities. Exceptional Children, XXXI, 1964, 207-216.
Junkala, J. Task analysis and instructional alternatives. Academic
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Therapy, VIII, No. 1, Fall, 1972.
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Kass, C. E. Educational management of reading deficits.
In J. Irwin
and M. Marge (Eds)Principles of childhood learning disabilities.
N. Y., : Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972.
et all. Methods and materials in learning disabilities,
final report, Vol. I. Leadership Training Institute in
Learning Disabilities. USOE Project No. 127145. U. of Arizona.
1972.
Kirk, S. A. and Kirk, W. Psycholinguistic learning disabilities:
diagnosis and rernediation. Tucson: U. of Arizona Press, 1970.
Meyers, P. T. and Hammill, D. D. Methods of Learning Disabilities.
N. V., John Wiley, 1969.
Schwaib, E. Correct diagnosis and management of the child with brain
dysfunction. New York J. of Medicine, 1967, 67, 2320.
Valett, R. E. Programming learning disabilities. Palo Alto: Fearon, 1969.
White, E. E. and Smith, H. I. A guide to behavior modification: a
classroom teacher's handbook. Peek Public., Palo Alto 1972.
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
Senate Committee on
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From
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H. S.
O'Connell
Undergraduate Studies
Subject .......... .......... ...........CourseEnrolment Statistic.
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BSF.
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423 and EDUC. 1422
Herewith course enrolment statistics on the course that Is
currently named
EDIJC. 1422-14
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Learning Disabi'lities
( The course was previously named, PSF. 1423-5 Behavioural
Approaches to the Understanding of Learning Disabilities)
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Enrolment
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1423:
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69-1 ?
140
69-2 ?
814
70-2 ?
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96
70-3 ?
146
71-2 ?
76
71-3
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17
72-2 ?
55
72-3
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146
73-1
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* 72-3 and 73-1 semesters show BSF. 423 as Interdisciplinary Studies
EDUC. 1422:
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73-3 ?
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