Legal, Social, and Professional Issues For Intervention Specialists

Catalog description

A course designed to study current issues in education, with a view toward understanding the issues surrounding special education and its role within education as a social institution. Students review the American legal system and laws governing special education at federal and state levels and address issues from a teaching perspective. Special education law, social, historical, and philosophical effects will be explored. The course includes procedures specific to programs for learners with need for educational intervention.