SPED 8917 - Assessment/Strategies for Students with Disabilities

3 cr.

This course prepares candidates to employ the processes and terminology utilized in assessment. Assessment in the academic areas of reading, written and oral language and listening will be explored. Graduate students will evaluate students with disabilities (or suspected disabilities) in these academic areas using formal assessment tools, background information and observations. Information gathered will be synthesized and interpreted to select appropriate strategies and plan effective academic programs in the language arts domain. Candidates will develop components of the students IEP that pertain to reading and language arts.

Prerequisite(s): SPED 8016 and SPED 8915 or SPED 8916 . Corequisite(s): Take concurrently with SPED 9130 or SPED 8918