Communication, Health, and Mobility

Catalog description

Candidates will develop the knowledge of typical and atypical development, appropriate and safe procedures, technology, and adaptive equipment, to meet the health and mobility needs of students with mild to extensive support needs, including medically fragile, deaf/blind, and traumatic brain injury students, to create and support access to safe and accessible learning environments that facilitate student learning and engagement with the core curriculum. Candidates will develop the knowledge and skills to collaboratively plan instruction that incorporates a range of communication strategies and age-appropriate, functional and meaningful activities to encourage student participation in learning, and utilizes assistive technology and AAC, including low- and high-tech equipment and materials, to promote curriculum access and skills development while addressing functional limitations of movement and/or sensation of students with disabilities. 25 hours of focused observations are required for each class in this program.