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EDUCATION

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INSTRUCTOR: DR. LEONE PROCK ?

SPRING 1980

MPX 7506

Education

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is designed to provide regular classroom teachers

with a level of competence sufficient for the non-clinical treatment

of children with learning disabilities. Emphasis in terms of

content, assignments, discussions, laboratory experiences,

and readings will be upon those procedures of assessment and

instructional programming that may maximally increase the

achievement levels of learning disabled students. The laboratory

base of Education

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will feature treatment of learning

disabilities in a selection of regular classrooms.

The following major topics wilt be addressed:

1.

Data management: collections and assessment

of information on learning; and, instructional

accommodation of assessments of learning

disabilities

2.

Task analysis

3.

Procedures of instructional programming

4.

Selection, analysis and evaluation of

instructional materials

5.

"Invention" techniques of individual treatments

of learning disabilities

6.

Classroom management of children with

learning disabilities

7.

Formation and testing of diagnostic hypotheses

in relation to learning disabilities

TEXT: MANN, P.H. and SUITER, P. Handbook in Diagnostic Teaching:

a learning disabilities approach, (abridged ed.)

Allyn and Bacon,

1974.