Literacy Process & Strategies for Students With Special Needs

Catalog description

This course provides direct instruction strategies for students with disabilities who struggle with reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Formal and informal assessment of specific reading problems will be explored, and use of that data to design strategic teaching in comprehension, word analysis, and writing processes. Oral language and listening skills will be developed as alternatives within literacy demands. The focus is increased literacy success for students with special needs through research-based practices. The impact of executive functioning problems on literacy will also be examined.