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    D-2:
    Educational Change: Meeting the Challenge of Inclusion
    Instructor:
    Dr. Pat Mirenda
    Location:
    Surrey
    UVic
    /EDUC
    SFU
    UBC
    Date:
    ?
    July 4-13, 1994
    Course
    Number: ?
    ED-D 487
    373
    EPSE 390A
    Days:
    Monday—Saturday
    Section Number:
    ?
    Q60
    T2.00
    96R
    Time:
    8:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
    TT or
    Cat
    Number: ?
    46222
    28524
    05745
    COURSE DESCRIPTION
    This course will address the-needs of students with moderate, severe, and multiple handicaps in regular classroom settings.
    It is designed to provide strategies for planning, implementing, and evaluating longitudinal, functional and chronological
    age appropriate curricular content for these students. The focus of the course will be on writing IEPs and delivering this
    curricular content to students in integrated settings with regular education peers. The course content will emphasize
    strategies for matching individual student needs with the ongoing classroom curriculum. Strategies for designing programs
    for elementary and secondary-aged students will be addressed. In addition, strategies for social integration and helping
    students to make friends will be included.
    INSTRUCTOR PROFILE
    Pat Mirenda, Ph.D. is a communication and behaviour specialist who currently works with CBI Consultants in Vancouver.
    September,
    She received
    1992,
    her doctorate
    she was an
    in
    Associate
    behavioural
    Professor
    disabilities
    in the
    from
    Department
    the University
    of Special
    of Wisconsin-Madison
    Education and Communication
    in
    1984.
    Prior
    Disorders
    to
    at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Co-Director of the Barkley Augmentative and Alternative Communication
    Center. She was responsible for the teacher education program in severe disabilities during the eight years she was on the
    the
    faculty
    Spring
    at Nebraska.
    1994
    semester.
    She taught an off-campus SFU course on inclusion to over
    50
    teachers and staff in Richmond during
    She has written numerous research papers and co-authored a
    1992
    book entitled
    Augmentative and Alternative
    Communication: Management of Severe Communication Disorders in Children and Adults.
    She has also presented papers
    and workshops at many national and international conferences on inclusion and other topics.
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS
    Students will be expected to attend all classes and to complete assigned readings both before and during the course. In
    addition, students will be expected to design an inclusion plan for one student of their choice, using both in-class and class
    reading materials as resources.
    READINGS
    Giangreco, M., Cloninger, C., & Iverson, V.
    (1993) Choosing options and accommodations for children: A guide to
    planning inclusive education.
    Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes
    Stainback, S., & Stainback, W.
    (1992). Curriculum considerations in inclusive classrooms.
    Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.

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