*MON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Session 1999

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EDUC424 -4 ?

J.

McNamara

Learning Disabilities: Laboratory

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Office MPX 8646

Lecture: Tues. & Frid.: 8:30 - 10:00

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Location: MPX 8620 ?

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291-4548

Lab.:Tues.,Wed.,Thurs.,Frid.: 10:00 -12:00 Location:

MPX 8620 ?

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E-mail: jkm@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE

Corequisite: Educ 422

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to:

1.

Teach students to perform informal assessment of reading, writing and math problems.

2. Teach students to understand how to set up an individual educational plan for a student

with learning disabilities.

3.

Teach students to teach a child or adolescent with learning disabilities.

4.

Teach students to monitor and evaluate progress of the students with learning disabilities.

STRUCTURE OF COURSE

The first two lecture sessions (June 29 and July 2) will prepare students for initial assessment

and will also deal with teaching strategies that may be utilized to teach tutees. During sessions

July 6 through July 23 each SFU student will tutor a student with learning disabilities. Daily

tutoring sessions will be preceded by lectures designed to guide and support SFU students

through their tutoring sessions and will provide guidelines for assignments. The last sessions

(July 27 to July 30) will be lecture format. Final reports will be due during the first week of

August.

REQUIREMENTS

Assignments will include reports on assessment and tutoring. Details will be provided at the

first class meeting.

REQUIRED TEXTS

Wong, Bernice Y.L. (1996)The ABC's of Learning Disabilities. San Diego: Academic Press.

Assessment Manuals: Each SFU student will need to purchase one or two manuals for use

in the course (approx $15).