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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

EDUCATION 426-4

TEACHING CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Spring, 1991

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Instructor: ?

Dr. L. Prock

Thursdays ?

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MPX 9504

4:30 - 8:20 P. M.

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Phone: ?

291-4117

Location: MPX 8620

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Messages:

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291-3395

PREREQUISITE

60 hours of credit; PSYC 351 or 355, or equivalent.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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.

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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

1.

Acase study report

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30%

2.

Two quizzes based on content of textbook

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40%

(20% each: Feb. 14 & Mar. 21)

3.

Two short essays

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30%

(15% each: Feb. 14 & Mar. 21)

(Details re. the requirements will be given at the first class meeting, Jan. 10, 1991.)

TEXTBOOK

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

Publishing Company.