.IMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 422-4: Learning Disabilities?
EDUCATION 424-4: Learning Disabilities Lab
Regular Summer Semester, 1989
(May 9- August 3)
May/June - Tuesday & Thursday
5:30 p.m. - 9:20 p.m.
July /August - Tuesday & Thursday
8:30 am. - 12:20 a.m.
Location: MPX 8620
Instructor: Dr. Leone Prock
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MPX 9504
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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: ?
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 9th. 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.
