PRACTICUM IN DEAF EDUCATION      1-3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

(Repeatable for a maximum of 3 credit hours) This classroom and field-based experience is designed to provide pre-service deaf education teachers with the opportunity to develop professional-level skills in working with deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. The field component will provide experience in working with DHH students with diverse needs, disabilities, and ethnic-cultural backgrounds. The class will address appropriate lesson planning and implementation. Students will spend a minimum of 50 hours in the educational setting (a classroom/educational environment) working with at least one student with hearing loss.