Sep 20, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
EDTE 2010 - Characteristics of Learners Receiving Services and Supports under IDEA
This course addresses identification, referral, assessment procedures, and service delivery options, for learners receiving services and supports under IDEA. Students learn about parental involvement, laws, legal issues and implications with regard to IDEA, 504, ADA, and other disability policies. Course discussion topics include inclusion, collaboration, agency and related service personnel, and assistive technologies. Course content focuses on characteristics and best practices for meeting the needs of the full range of learners (including students with gifts and talents and cultural and linguistic diversity) from preschool through young adulthood.
Requisites: (EDTE 2000 and 2020 or concurrent) and Admission to Teacher Candidacy WARNING: No credit for this course if the following is taken (keeps credit for the following course, as defined by department): EDSP 2710
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to explain definitions, identification, causes and prevalence of specific disabilities.
- Students will be able to describe etiological factors and characteristics of students with disabilities and implications for education and life.
- Students will be able to analyze and report on ways that disabilities may influence motivation, social, behavioral, and educational needs.
- Students will be able to describe and create a supportive learning environment that can be transmitted to the classroom fostering the self-worth of all students.
- Students will be able to discuss how various disabilities impact learning and development.
- Students will be able to share strategies that can be used in the classroom to help students develop an awareness of their own personal strengths and limitations through differentiation of curriculum, instruction, assessment.
- Students will be able to discuss issues related to similarities and differences between students with/without disabilities and appropriate levels of inclusion of students with disabilities within the continuum of services.
- Students will be able to explain the central concepts, legislation, historical foundations, theories, philosophies, and current issues in special education including the impact of No Child Left Behind.
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