Collaboration With Families and Professionals

Catalog description

This course will equip students to collaborate with other educators, service providers, and parents to develop and implement appropriate services and supports for students with disabilities. Students will strengthen their interpersonal skills as they seek to address challenges that affect families with children with disabilities. The course will focus on promoting the essential skills of communication and problem solving through developing self-awareness of the influence of their own and others' attitudes, behaviors, and ways of communicating on instructional practice. Students will collaborate in culturally responsive ways with families, other educators, related service providers, and personnel from community agencies. As part of the non-licensure track, this course includes limited field experiences that do not satisfy licensure requirements. Prerequisites: EDSE-520, EDSE-530, EDSE-540