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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
CHILD 53 | Title:
CHILD W/SPEC NEEDS |
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Full Title:
The Child with Special Needs in the Community |
Last Reviewed:2/13/2023 |
Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
Maximum | 2.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 12 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 36.00 |
Minimum | 2.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 11 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 36.00 |
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| Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| Total Out of Class Hours: 72.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 108.00 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade Only
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Overview of common disabilities of children and the impact on families. Educational issues, techniques, and methods of management. Review of resources and services in the community. Requires 10 hours community observation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for Engl 100A or equivalent.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Overview of common disabilities of children & the impact on families, educational issues, techniques, & methods of management. Review of resources & services in the community. Requires 10 hours of community observation.
(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for Engl 100A or equivalent.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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C-ID: |
Certificate/Major Applicable:
Certificate Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES:
1. Examine concept of normalization.
2. Examine Public Law 94-142, with emphasis on development of
Individualized Educational Program and recent legal
developments.
3. Investigate the place of disability in a historical and
cultural perspective.
4. Examine behavior management and other approaches with
application to children with special needs.
5. Investigate family dynamics as aplicable to children with
special needs.
6. Examine modifications the regular class teacher may make to
accommodate a child with special needs.
7. Investigate community resources available for people with
special needs.
8. Investigate possible careers serving the exceptional child.
9. Examine specific disabilities: etiology, prevalence,
characteristics and remediation.
Topics and Scope
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GENERAL INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION
1. Overview of disabilities.
2. Brief cultural and historical perspective.
GENERAL ISSUES INVOLVING PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
1. History and philosophy of Special Education.
2. Public Law 94-142, implications and aplications, legal update.
3. The child as an individual: developing an Individualized
Educational Program.
4. The child in the community setting: resources and services.
5. Careers with the child with special needs.
6. Current approaches to teaching children with special needs.
7. Focus on family of child with special needs: dynamics, grief
cycle, impact on siblings, multicultural considerations.
8. Dynamics of causation: prenatal, perinatal, postnatal.
SPECIFIC DISABILITIES
1. Down Syndrome
2. Cerebral Palsy
3. Autism
4. Learning Disabilities
5. Emotional Disturbance
6. Other Physical and Health Impairments
7. Hearing Impairment
8. Vision Impairment
9. Developmental Disability
10. Speech and Language Disorders
11. Emerging concerns: HIV, Drug Exposure, Abuse and Neglect.
Assignments:
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1. Readings from textbook.
2. Readings from handouts.
3. Choice of project. Either Child-Family Study or Disability
Awareness Presentation in a local school. Perform activity,
write brief paper, present orally to our child development
class.
4. Observation of 3 community programs for people with special
needs. Brief writeup.
5. Approximately ten, 5-minute quizzes on reading, usually essay
type.
6. Midterm and final examinations, 50% essay, 50% objective.
7. Volunteer 3 sessions @ community programs which include individuals
with special needs
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing 20 - 70% |
Essay exams, Term papers | |
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving 10 - 40% |
Field work, Quizzes, Exams | |
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations 10 - 30% |
Class performances, Field work | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 10 - 40% |
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 0 - 0% |
None | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN TODAY'S SCHOOLS, 4th Edition, Heward & Orlnsky
1993
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