Evidence-Based Instruction for Elementary Students with Disabilities in Reading, Math, and…

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Evidence-based methods for design, delivery, and adaption of instruction for elementary students with disabilities in reading, mathematics, and writing. SPLED 403A Evidence-Based Instruction for Elementary Students with Disabilities in Reading, Math, and Writing (3)This course is delivered via a model of blended instruction and addresses aspects of designing, delivering, and adapting instruction for students across the range of disability (i.e., mild, moderate, and severe) in elementary, inclusive settings. Content on relevant learner characteristics of special needs students is found throughout the course. About half the course covers content on: designing direct and explicit instruction; self-regulated learning; assistive technology; adaptations and accommodation for learners with several disabilities; and the hierarchy of taxonomical units relative to instructional design. The remaining half of the course covers content relevant to a wide range of literacy concerns and includes: evidence based practices for instruction in early reading (e.g. decoding, phonemic awareness, phonic and structural analysis; and vocabulary); reading comprehension at primary and intermediate levels (e.g. test structure, content specific vocabulary, and narrative and expository reading in content domains); writing (e.g. handwriting, spelling grammar, and written expression); and mathematics (e.g. number sense and early numeracy, basic facts and operations, applied skills, problem solving, factions, decimals, and percents).