Needs

Section: E1.00

Scheduled Final Exam: No

IN

Instructor: P. Kosonen

Office:

Tel: 291-3395

Fax: 291-3203

E-mail:

PREREQUISITE

60 hours credit

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Text materials, lectures, handouts, audio-visual materials and other resources will address various categories of special

need: communication difficulties, emotional and behavioural disorders, learning disabilities, physical and mental

disabilities, health problems, developmental disorders, visual and auditory loss, and giftedness. Related topics

(eg. mainstreaming, inclusion, non-categorical service delivery models, least restrictive environment) will be examined.

In addition, cooperative learning methods will be employed to further consolidate learning among course participants.

OBJECTIVES

• To increase knowledge of the range of exceptionalities with an emphasis on definitions, characteristics, and

educational implications of major categories of special need.

• To deepen understanding of issues related to teaching students with special needs including current research in

instructional psychology; status of special education in British Columbia and Canada; and, comparable philosophies,

practices, and policies in other educational jurisdictions.

* To provide strategies for managing and delivering instruction in classrooms and schools.

REQUIREMENTS

1)

Two tests based on readings, lectures, and classwork (20% each)...............................................................40%

2)

Two position papers (15% each) .............................................................................................................30%

3)

Resource book.........................................................................................................................................20%

4) Class ?

presentation..................................................................................................................................10%

READINGS

REQ REC

0-205-15724-6

Schulz, J

.

, Carpenter, C.,

Allyn and Bacon

Mainstreaming Exceptional

&Turnbull, A.

Students (1995)

?

x

0-13-045741-8

Winzer, M.

Prentice Hall

Children with Exceptionalities:

A Canadian Perspective

0-205-14917-0

Hallahan, D. &

Allyn and Bacon

Exceptional Children:

H49174

Kauffman, J

.

Introduction to Special Education