SPE 531 — Teaching and Assessing Students with Severe Disabilities
Education
3 Credits
This course is designed to review current state-of-the-art educational practices, advocacy issues, strategies for working with parents and families, and research issues that influence the quality of life in the areas of curriculum and assessment, including vocational and transitioning options. The Massachusetts Frameworks are used to guide current in grade level curriculum, instructional methods, assessment strategies, service delivery models, skills curricula, interdisciplinary approaches to education and applied research findings in order to affect positive behavior change in their students.