Collaboration with Professionals and Families

Catalog description

Students will learn about the importance of collaboration between teachers in the regular classroom and teachers of students with disabilities. Students will learn how to work as a member of a professional multidisciplinary team in assessing, evaluating, planning, creating, and utilizing both an IFSSP and an IEP (as well as a 504 accommodation plan). Students will learn how to communicate with and advocate for families and young children with developmental and acquired disorders and disabilities. Fieldwork/apprenticeship is required with this course. This is a required course for those in the Early Childhood and Teaching Students with Disabilities in Early Childhood, Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Adolescence programs.