ED1tATION 422-4: Learning Disabies
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EDUCATION 424-4: Learning Disabilities Lab
Regular Semester, 1987
(May 4 - July 31)
May/June - Tuesday & Thursday
5:30 -
9:20
July - Tuesday & Thursday
8:30-12:20
Instructor: ?
Dr. Leone Prock
Phone: ?
291-4117
Location: ?
MPX 8620
Prerequisite: 60 hours of credit, Educ 220 or equivalent instructional psychology courses recommended.
Calendar Description: Educ. 422-4: Learning Disabilities
A study of conceptual and historic foundations of learning disabilities and an
introduction to the methodologies of diagnosis and remediation of learning
disabilities.
Educ. 424-4: Learning Disabilities: Laboratory
Supervised experience in analysis and evaluation of treatment strategies to be used
with classroom students having learning disabilities.
Content of Education 422 and Education 424 will be packaged as one program. Thus, during May and
June Education 422 and Education 424 content will be dealt with on BOTH Tuesday and Thursday
evenings.
Meeting times change in July in order to accommodate the on-campus attendance of children who register
in our summer tutoring program.
Students who register for either Education 422 or Education 424, but not both courses,. should see the
instructor in class on Tuesday, May
5th.
Special arrangements are available. Hopefully, the majority of
students will elect the specially designed, combined course option.
Educ. 422-4 is designed as an introduction to the theoretical foundations of learning disabilities. Course
content will include definition; symptomatology; integrities for learning; diagnosis; remediation; current
state of services for the learning disabled child, adolescent and adult. Grade will be based-on a number of
assignments, including investigation of a student-selected topic. There is no exam in this course. Details
re: assignments will be provided at the first class meeting.
Educ. 424-4 provides a "live" experience in tutoring. Course content will include task analysis and
instructional programming; assessment and data management; procedures for treating perceptual and
cognitive problems; behaviour management; and reporting techniques. Assignments include, actual reports
on assessment and tutoring. There is no exam in this course. Details will be provided at the first class
meeting.
Required Texts:
Educ. 422:
Mercer, Cecil D. Students with Learning Disabilities. Merrill Publishing.
Educ. 424:
Mann, P.H., Suiter, P.A., McClung, R.M. Handbook in Diagnostic Teaching (2nd Ed.), Allyn &
Bacon. (or most current edition available)
