Teaching Reading to Students with Severe Disabilities

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course will present empirically validated instructional procedures to address the academic deficits of students with severe disabilities across principal domains of reading instruction including oral language, concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and content area literacy. Includes integration of explicit teaching procedures, direct instruction, and instructional design principles that apply to a range of academic domains. Proficiency in the development of assessment profiles, instructional lessons, monitoring of progress through curriculum-based measures and data-based decision making is required. Students will apply their skills in classroom settings. [3]