Access to General Education and Teaching Functional Academics

3 credits · Undergraduate

The course provides in-depth information on teaching students with severe disabilities. Emphasis is on strategies for the acquisition and generalized use of age-appropriate functional skills in natural school and community-based settings. Methods for developing and implementing individualized programming across specialized curricular areas such as communicative, cognitive, functional academic, motor, domestic living/self-help, recreation/leisure, and general community living skills. Current research evidence to support effective practices is stressed. [3]