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EDUCATION 488-4:

Special Topics: Teaching Children and Youth With Special Needs

Spring, 1989

Instructor:

Ron Rubadeau

Mondays

7:00 - 10:30 p.m..

Location: KELOWNA

This course will begin January 9th, 1989 and will be held at Martin Education Centre,

1434 Graham Stk., Kelowna,

PREREQUISITES:

Educ. 401 91402 or equivalent.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1.

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:

1.

A case study report

30%

2.

Two quizzes based on content of textbook

40%

(20% each: Feb. 16 & Mar. 23)

3.

Final exam

30%

(Details re. the requirements will be given at the first class meeting, Jan. 12, 1989.)

TEXTBOOK:

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

Publishing Company.