Medical, Legal, & Ethical Issues

Catalog description

This course will cover federal laws, rules, and regulations governing and/or impacting on programs for exceptional students, litigation cases that have impact on individual with exceptionalities, interdisciplinary collaboration with health care professionals and other agencies, the role other disciplines and agencies play in meeting the needs of children with exceptionalities, the needs and management techniques for students who have communicable diseases and medical diagnosis or who are considered medically fragile and the adverse effect of these conditions on learning and family functioning, medications, administration of medications, and school healthcare procedures, and professionalism and ethics in teaching individuals with exceptionalities. May be taken prior to achieving Teacher Education Program eligibility.