5/2/2024 12:29:08 AM	CHLD 53 Course Outline as of Spring 2002	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  CHLD 53	Title:  CHILD W/SPEC NEEDS
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	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		17.5 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

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:  CHILD 53

Catalog Description:

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 ENGL 100.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

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 ENGL 100.
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:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
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:

  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

  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:

  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:

  EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN TODAY'S SCHOOLS, 4th Edition, Heward & Orlnsky

 1993

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