Introduction to Exceptional Education

Catalog description

The Introduction to Exceptional Education course is designed to provide an historical and contemporary overview of the special education process while focusing on various types of learners with special needs including students with disabilities, twice exceptional learners, and children at risk. Topics include legal requirements and laws, partnering with parents/families, categories of exceptionality, identification and intervention, collaboration, and research-based best practices, including Response to Intervention (RTI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).