SIGN FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Semester 2003 ?

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LVUL42b -4

Maureen Hoskyn

Teaching Children and Youth ?

Office: EDB 7641

with Special Needs ?

Phone: 291-5808

Fridays, 13:00-16:50 in EDB

8651/2 ?

D01.00 ?

E-mail: hoskyn@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE:

60 hours credit

Objectives:

Education 426 is a course that explores the challenges faced by children with communication (e.g., autism)

and/or genetic disorders (e.g., Down Syndrome, Fragile-X syndrome) in a school environment. The focus of

the course will be on intervention approaches to assist children with special needs in the classroom. Each

student will be required to conduct a case study which involves spending a minimum of 15 hours assisting a

child with special needs in a school environment.

Course assignments:

Case study ? 30 marks

Presentation ? 10 marks

Mid-term ?

30 marks

Final ?

30 marks

REQUIRED TEXT:

Sharon Vaughn, Candace Bos, Jeanne Shay (2003) Teaching exceptional, diverse, and at-risk students in the

general education classroom. Boston: Allyn & Bacon