Instruction and Transition for Adolescents with Disabilities

Catalog description

This course examines the instructional, transitional and community-based needs faced by adolescents with disabilities. Students learn how to modify, accommodate, and adapt instruction for exceptional youth, with an emphasis on adolescents who have disabilities. Students will identify appropriate attitudes and strategies that will help them build positive relationships with adolescents with disabilities and create appropriate learning environments as they move from school-based instruction to community-based vocational or post-secondary settings. There is an emphasis is on legal issues, the continuum of alternate placements, post-secondary transition plans and collaboration with community-based organizations and personnel. Prerequisite: minimum score of 01 in 'Upper Division Status'.