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  • SPED 4800: Contingencies to Eng Learning

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Contingencies to Engineer Learning is the fourth competency-based course in a five to seven course sequence Leading to the ABA/CLM Advanced Competency Certificate. This interdisciplinary course will provide you with the skills and tools to critically analyze elements of learner performance and elements of the learning environment to determine functional relationships and utilize evidence-based contingencies to alter the trajectory and pace of developing and weakening repertoires. You will acquire knowledge and competencies needed to provide professional quality behavior analytic services in a variety of settings and specialized training to utilize the Competent Learner Model (CLM) tools to support your work. This course is designed for students and professionals interested in becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)/Board Certified assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) and a CLM Certified Instructor/Coach and is appropriate for students and professionals in the fields of education, psychology behavior analysis and other human service fields who work in current of future CLM implementations.
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  • SPED 4900: Professional & Ethical Stand

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Professional and Ethical Standards is the fifth competency-based course in a five to seven course sequence Leading to the ABA/CLM Advanced Competency Certificate. This interdisciplinary course will provide you with the Behavior Analytic professional and ethical standards and skills to practice, supervise and coach others and adhere to the CLM Service Delivery and Coaching Standards.You will acquire knowledge and competencies needed to provide professional quality behavior analytic services in a variety of settings and specialized training to utilize the Competent Learner Model (CLM) tools to support your work. This course is designed for students and professionals interested in becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)/Board Certified assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) and a CLM Certified Coach and is appropriate for students and professionals in the fields of education, psychology behavior analysis and other human service fields who work in current of future CLM implementations.
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  • SPED 4920: Special Mathematics Instr II

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course builds upon the content of Special Mathematics by providing students with mechanisms to deliver standards-based mathematics instruction to adolescents with disabilities.
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  • SPED 5000: Teaching Reading

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course will introduce students to the Science of Reading and provide students with specific data-based strategies used to teach reading and written expression to exceptional learners.
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  • SPED 5100: Teaching Math

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course will provide students with specific data-based strategies to teach mathematics to students with disabilities.
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  • SPED 6000: Spec Ed Foundations and Collab

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed to provide information and skills necessary for accommodating exceptional learners in a variety of school arrangements. The primary focus is foundations and characteristics of special education and students with exceptionalities and collaboration/consultation for the successful inclusion of students with exceptionalities into the inclusionary classroom.
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  • SPED 6100: Spec Ed Hist, Theory, & Except

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed to provide information and skills necessary for individuals interested in the philosophy found within special education identification and practices. The course also serves to provide information regarding the definition, prevalence, etiology, characteristics, and general educational practices as they relate to individuals with exceptionalities.
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  • SPED 6150: Secondary Transition

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course deals with special education programs for senior high school students as well as those persons who reside in the community. Emphasis is placed on vocational preparation and training. Specific techniques for task analysis of jobs, daily living skills, and social adaptation constitute a major portion of this course. Emphasis is placed on the development of functional skills that contribute to normalized development.
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  • SPED 6200: Assess & Prescript Teaching

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course teaches students how to administer, score, and interpret both norm- referenced and criterion referenced assessment devices and how to prescribe programs of remediation based on the results of these devices.
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  • SPED 6300: Evid-Bsd Prac in PK-12 Spec Ed

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Evidence-Based Practices is offered to Education majors the semester prior to their student-teaching experience and is a methodology course for pre-service education teachers. The purpose of the course is to prepare pre-service teachers to provide evidence-based language arts and math instruction to students with disabilities in inclusion settings. An emphasis is placed on results of research and proven methods of instruction for teaching beginning reading and math to children with learning difficulties. The course stresses a behavioral approach to teaching, as well as the development and implementation of intervention strategies for various populations of children with exceptionalities in inclusion settings. Additional topics include modifications and adaptations of materials, effective teaching, learning strategies, lesson planning, assessment, and individualized education programs. Prerequisite: SPED 6000
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