Bilingual School-Clinical Child Psychology I: Internship and Seminar

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This course involves supervised experience in a school setting. The internship will include observation and practice supervised jointly by district and University psychologists. In addition, there will be weekly seminar meetings at which pertinent issues and research in the field of school psychology and delivery of services to special needs children and bilingual populations will be discussed. There will be a special focus on issues related to delivering psychological services in the native language. Ethical issues will be covered through class reading material and class discussions. School psychology in the context of history and systems in psychology will be covered. Requires 3 days per week for 20 weeks. This course will include at least 15 hours of training in ethical issues. Students must have successfully completed a language proficiency examination and demonstrate competence to provide services in the native language.