EDUCATION 422-4: LEARNING DISABILITIES

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EDUCATION 424-4: LEARNING DISABILITIES LAB

Regular Semester, 1991

(May6 - August 2)

May/June - Tuesday & Thursday

5:30 - 9:20 p.m.

July/August, Tuesday & Thursday

8:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Location: MPX 8620

Instructor: ?

Dr. Leone Prock

Office: ?

MPX9504

Phone: ?

291-4117

PREREQUISITE

60 hours of credit, Educ. 220 or equivalent instructional psychology courses recommended.

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION

Educ. 422-4:

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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:

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Learning Disabilities: Laboratory

Supervised experience in analysis and evaluation of treatment strategies to be used with

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. Educ. 424 students must schedule

bQth

mornings in the

July/August period.

Students who register for either Education 422 or Education 424, but not both courses, should see the

instructor in class at the first class meeting. 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.

Grades will be based on a number of assignments, including investigation of a student-selected

topic. 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. Details will be provided at the

first class meeting.

REQUIRED TEXTS

Educ. 422:

Lerner, J. Learning disabilities. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989.

Educ. 424:

Mann, P. H., Suiter, P. A., McClung, R. M. Handbook in diagnostic teaching (3rd Ed.),

Allyn & Bacon.