Fall, Summer. For leaders and resource personnel in special education services: consideration of critical issues and policies in special education and disability services.

Statistics as a tool in education and research, descriptive statistics, transformation of scores, sampling and probability, linear correlation and regression, introduction to statistical inference, basic tests of significance, and effect size.

Identification and evaluation of research problems, research designs, use of library resources, data gathering, and writing research reports.

The aim is (a) to assist students in gaining an awareness of low and high tech systems and their features (b) to provide students with a wide variety of technological solutions in the following areas: computer access, technologies for individuals who are blind or who have low vision, technologies for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, seating and positioning technologies, mobility technologies, augmentative communication and aids for daily living.

The aim is: (a) to examine different instruments designed and adapted for data collections, (b) to emphasize importance of team decision-making in the assessment process is investigated to determine appropriate assistive technology solutions, and (c) facilitate a local collaborative team process for an individual, which culminates in a recommendation for an appropriate technology system.

The aim is (a) to assist students in exploring the multi-dimensional aspects of successful implementation of assistive technology, (b) funding options for the acquisition of specific types of technology, (c) legal implications related to service delivery, (d) strategies for on-going team involvement, and (e) support and training.  Specific data gathering strategies will be explored as a tool for classroom utilization and monitoring of student progress in the general curriculum will be included.  Family participation and the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process are emphasized as a means to ensure long-range goals.

The aim is to assist students in exploring assistive technology applications that can be integrated in universally designed learning environments and differentiated classrooms. Low tech solutions and modifications, customization of classroom computers and software programs, as well as assistive technology tool options will be explored with relevance to individual student goals that have been addressed in the Individual Education Plan (IEP). Local technology plans will be examined as a means to address needs of all students through inclusion of assistive technologies.

On demand. Supervised study of selected problem and written product in fulfillment of requirement for graduate degree. Prerequisite: Graduate status and approval of Program Coordinator or School Chair.

Supervised independent readings in preparation for the master’s comprehensive examination. Graded S/U.

On demand. Credit for thesis study. An enrollment in excess of six hours is acceptable for a master’s degree, but no more than six hours are creditable toward the degree. The minimum acceptable total for the degree is three hours. Graded S/U.