The
Exceptional Child
Catalog Description
Lecture: (3 hours)
Inclusion for children with disabilities in early
childhood education and child care settings is studied, An overview
of specific disabilities and strategies to support inclusion are presented.
Issues related to the planning and delivery of services for exceptional
children and their families are explored.
Prerequisite
ECE 110 Early Child Development
ECE 111 Introduction to Early Childhood Education
Course Objectives
· Describe physical, cognitive, emotional,
behavioral and social factors that may alter the track of development from
the expected norm.
· Describe the intervention techniques
including educational and therapeutic programs and school facilities used
to help special needs children realize their fullest potential.
· Describe factors affecting the families
of children with special needs and intervention techniques used with those
families.
· Compile a list of community resources
geared to aid special needs children and their families in financial needs
as well as emotional and medical needs.
· Write an outline for parent/teacher
conference pertaining to problems that deal with some aspect of the special
needs situations.
· Describe the difference between handicaps,
disabled, deficit, at risk, i. e. all current terminology used to describe
children with special needs.
· Identify learning disabilities.
Required Text
THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD: INCLUSION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION. (4th ed.), K. Eileen Allen & Ilene S. Schwartz, Delmar
Publishers, Albany, N. Y., 2000.
Other Required Readings
All handouts.
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