Psychology of Exceptional Children
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Course Name: Psychology of Exceptional Children |
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Course Number: EDUC 713C |
Semester Credits: 3 |
Course Description
This course is designed to familiarize students with the psychology and unique needs of children with health, intellectual, academic, emotional, behavioral, sensory, and physical exceptionalities. This course offers definitions, information on diagnoses, observable traits, and instructional/behavioral strategies to support each learner. Students completing this course will be better prepared to understand and master all aspects of teaching a child with a learning difference, more prepared to maximize each student’s strengths, and better equipped to meet the many challenges ahead while managing changes in the field of education.
Goals
- Learn definitions regarding various exceptionalities
- Become familiar with criteria for diagnosing various exceptionalities
- Recognize common traits of exceptional learners
- Provide instructional strategies for exceptional learners
- Provide behavioral strategies for exceptional learners
Course Contents
- Definition of disabilities
- Historical perspectives
- Adapting curriculum
- Practical advice
- Resources
- The whole child
- Elements of Learning
- Students’ and parents’ rights
- Multifactor evaluation
- Clinical evaluations
- Reading – the basis of learning
- Communication disorders
- ADHD
- Tourette Syndrome
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Sensory integrative dysfunction
- Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder
- Autism
- Mental retardation and developmental disabilities
- Visual Impairment
- Hearing Impairment
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Environmentally Induced Impairments
- Deficits in organizational skills
- Management approaches
- Sample individualized education program
Evidence of Learning Outcomes
Upon completing Psychology of Exceptional Children, educators will have a broader understanding of the unique needs of children with health, academic, emotional, behavioral, sensory, and physical exceptionalities.
How to Register
Psychology of Exceptional Children can be completed in either an online or via emailed PDF format. It is open for anyone to register at any time during an open semester. After completion, students receive graduate, non-degree semester credit on official transcripts from the University of La Verne, an accredited university in La Verne, California.
Registration is fast and straightforward and can be done online or over the phone. Courses are offered on a rolling basis during three standard semesters, and you can begin whenever you are ready! The registration dates are:
- Fall: September 1 - January 31
- Spring: February 1 - May 31
- Summer: June 1 - August 31