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Special Topics: Teaching Children and Youth With Special Needs

Fall, 1989

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Instructor:

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S. Lazin

Fridays, 7:00 P. M. - 9:00 P. M.

Saturdays, 9:00 A. M. - 4:00 P. M.

(every 2nd weekend except Nov. 11)

Location: Prince George

PREREQUISITES:

Educ. 401/402 or equivalent.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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To increase awareness of the range of problems which might affect the learning of

children and youth, and to elucidate the many points of common instructional need

across various categories within that range.

2.

To provide knowledge about major categories of handicap; to examine issues and

research pertaining to those handicapping conditions; and to investigate the special

instructional requirements that those conditions impose.

3.

To design and evaluate instructional and social management procedures for

accommodating children and youth with special needs in the regular classroom.

COURSE TOPICS AND FORMAT:

A "conference" format will be used in this course. Expert guests will address various

categories of special need; namely, communication difficulties, emotional and behavior

disorders, visual and auditory impairments, physical handicaps, mental retardation,

talent and giftedness, learning disabilities, cultural differences, troubled children. In

addition, the current status of special education in B.C. will be examined; and

instructional management models will be discussed.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

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A case study report ?

30%

2.

Two quizzes based on content of textbook

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40%

(20% each)

3. Final exam

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30%

(Details re. the requirements will be given at the first class meeting.)

TEXTBOOK:

Howard, W. L. and Orlansky, M. D. (1988). Exceptional children, (3rd. ed.). Merrill

Publishing Company.