620 syllabus

SpEd 620
Perspectives and Policies in Special Education

Course Description: SpEd 620 is an advanced seminar focusing on current issues in Special Education policy and practice.
This course is designed for graduate students, especially those in School Psychology; Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; and Special Education. Historical, legal, social and political frameworks for Special Education within schools and communities will be examined. Emphasis will be on the relationship between special and general education, inclusionary practices, family-focused interventions and collaborative teaming.

Required Readings:

Critical Isues in Special Education by Audrey McCray Sorrells, Herbert J. Rieth, and Paul T. Sindelar

Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal. Edited by Lesley Koplow

We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools by Gary Howard

A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K Payne

Course Expectations:

Course Assignments:
As listed for each theme.
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