Course Title

7241315

Course Number

Introduction to special education

Instructor Name

Farah Darwazeh

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

First Semester 3
First Semester 2
First Semester 1

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

The course of special education consists nine chapters that will cover the concept of special education, exceptional children, education plans, classification or the categories of special education, while the second chapter will deal with the mental retardation, definition, identification and assessment, characteristics, prevalence, causes, education approaches and education placement alternatives. The third chapter will deals with learning disabilities, its definition, characteristics, prevalence, causes, assessment and educational approaches and placement alternatives. The fourth chapter covers emotional and behavioural disorders, definition, characteristics, prevalence, causes, assessment and educational approaches and placement alternatives. The fifth chapter will discuss the autism spectrum disorders, definition, characteristics, screening and diagnosis, prevalence, educational approaches and placement alternatives. The sixth chapter will discuss the communication disorders, its definition, characteristics, prevalence, causes, assessment and educational approaches and placement alternatives. The seventh chapter deal with deafness and hearing loss, its definition, characteristics, prevalence, causes, assessment and educational approaches and placement alternatives. The eighth chapter discuss blind and low vision impairment its definition, characteristics, prevalence, causes, assessment and educational approaches and placement alternatives. In addition, the ninth and the last chapter will consider by physical disabilities and health impairment, definition, types prevalence, characteristics and educational approaches and alternatives.

By the end of this course, the student will achieve systematic knowledge in the following fundamental areas:

 

 

 

To give the student an enough ideas about the special population, and their

education strategies.

 

2. 2. To teach the student the communication needs of the special education categories.

 

3. 3. To teach the students how to identify each category of special education.

4. 4. To teach the student the general characteristics of each special education category.

 

5. 5. To teach the student how to communicate with other professionals who work with special education subgroups.

 

6. 5. To teach the student the educational approaches and alternatives to rehab special education categories educationally.

 

7. 6. To provide students by briefs about the assessment tools for each special education group.

 

 

specific objective

time table

 

•  The concept of special education, exceptional children, education plans, classification or the categories of special education

1th week

 

· Mental retardation, definition, identification and assessment.

2nd  week

 

• Characteristics, prevalence, cause, of MR

 

3rd week

 

• Education approaches and education placement
• alternatives of MR

4th week

 

• Learning disabilities, its definition, characteristics,
• prevalence

5th week

Exam One

• Causes, assessment and educational approaches and placement alternatives of learning disabilities.

6th Week

 

 

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7th week

 

• Emotional and behavioral disorders, definition,
• characteristics, prevalence, cause

8th week

 

• Emotional and behavioral disorders, definition,
• characteristics, prevalence, cause

9th week

 

• Assessment and educational approaches and
• placement alternatives of emotional disorders

 

10th week

Exam Two

· The autism spectrum disorders, definition,

· characteristics

11 th week

 

• Screening and diagnosis of autism, prevalence,
• educational approaches and placement alternatives

12thweek

 

• The communication disorders, its definition,
• characteristics, prevalence, causes.

13th week 

 

• Assessment and educational approaches and
• placement alternatives for children with communication
• disorders.

14th week

 

• Blind and low vision impairment its definition,
• characteristics, prevalence, causes, assessment and
• educational approaches and placement alternatives.

15th week

Final exam

Physical disabilities and health impairment, definition,

type's prevalence, characteristics and educational

approaches and alternatives

16th week

 

Exceptional children An introduction to special education

Author(s):  William L. Heward Publisher Jeffery W. Johnson, Ohio Year 2006

Edition:  Eighth edition