Transition Practices for Students with Severe Disabilities (High School to life)

SDIS 441 – Transition Practices for Students with Severe Disabilities (High School to life)

Prerequisites:
Completion of SDIS 331, SDIS 332 with grade of C or better
Concurrent enrollment in SDIS 442

Examines secondary transition issues and assessment, individualized transition planning for career and/or postsecondary, collaborating with community agencies, strategies in academics and career readiness.

Inclusive Practices for Students with SD (EI to Middle School)

SDIS 332 – Inclusive Practices for Students with SD (EI to Middle School)

Prerequisites:
Completion of SDIS 221, SDIS 222 with grade of C or better
Concurrent enrollment in SDIS 331

Focuses on curriculum development across general education subjects including local adaptations and accommodations for inclusion from early intervention through middle school grades. It includes instruction in important positioning skills so that students can have access to materials for learning. Also infused will be strategies for inclusion in home and community, age-appropriate activities, functional skills, building circles of supports and teaming skills.

Instructional Strategies II: Communication & Social Skills in the School, Home and Community

SDIS 331 – Instructional Strategies II: Communication & Social Skills in the School, Home and Community

Prerequisites:
Completion of SDIS 111, SDIS 112 with grade of C or better
Concurrent enrollment in SDIS 332

Examines functional communication, concept development, and social behavior across domains (school, home, community). It also addresses evidence-based strategies to teach specific communication skills and for development of social skills, communication profiles, and augmentative communication in meaningful activities and inclusive settings.

Instructional Strategies I: Motor Development in the School, Home and Community

SDIS 222 – Instructional Strategies I: Motor Development in the School, Home and Community

Prerequisites:
Completion of SDIS 111, SDIS 112 with grade of C or better
Concurrent enrollment in SDIS 221

Examines and applies gross and fine motor development across school, home and community settings. Values that will be promoted include

  1. inclusion,
  2. family-centered care,
  3. cultural sustainability,
  4. age-appropriate activities,
  5. functional skills, and
  6. collaborative teamwork.

Assessment & Program Planning for Students with Language & Communication Disabilities

SDIS 221 - Assessment & Program Planning for Students with Language & Communication Disabilities

Prerequisites:
Completion of SDIS 221, SDIS 222 with grade of C or better
Concurrent enrollment in SD 222

Examines typical and atypical development of basic communication, basic sign language, focus on early intervention strategies for communication, positive behavioral supports, and characteristics of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Assessment & Program Planning for Students with Motor Disabilities

SDIS 112 - Assessment & Program Planning for Students with Motor Disabilities

Prerequisites:
Acceptance into Severe Disabilities program of Teacher Education Completion of or concurrent enrollment in SDIS 111 grade C or better

Addresses foundational concepts, best practices, issues in special education/general education, and instructional strategies for target population. Examines characteristics of the SD population in the Pacific, etiologies, and atypical vs. typical development with a focus on motor development and early intervention.

Introduction to Severe Disabilities

SDIS 111 – Introduction to Severe Disabilities

Prerequisites:
C or better in ENG 111 and ENG 105
Acceptance into Severe Disabilities program of Teacher Education

Co-requisite:
SDIS 112

Examines typical and atypical development and early intervention Person-Centered Planning, authentic assessment, interpretation of assessment findings, development of intervention plans (IEP, IFSP), implementation of strategies, IEP development for children with motor, communication, nutrition, feeding and sensory disorders.

Deaf Education Internship I

DEAF 445 – Deaf Education Internship I

Prerequisites:
B or better in DEAF 444

Provides teacher candidates with on-the-job student teaching internship in their own classroom of deaf students with supervision and mentoring. Instruction will include literacy development and content instruction in all subject areas. For students with no master teacher, this course is the second semester of a 2-semester requirement within their own classroom and supervised by NSSP personnel.

Deaf Education Internship I

DEAF 444 – Deaf Education Internship I

Prerequisites:
B or better in DEAF 442

Provides teacher candidates with on-the-job student teaching internship  in their own classroom of deaf students with supervision and mentoring. Instruction will include literacy development and content instruction in all subject areas. For students with no master teacher, this course is the first semester of a 2-semester requirement within their own classroom and supervised by NSSP personnel.

Deaf Education Practicum III

DEAF 443 – Deaf Education Practicum III

Prerequisites:
Completion of DEAF 442 with a B or better, bilingual fluency (ASL/English)
Students who have earned a BA/BS degree and have their own classrooms replace DEAF 443 with DEAF 444 & DEAF 445

Provides teacher candidates with full-time supervised student teaching experience in a deaf education classroom for one semester with a master teacher where they would gradually be expected to be responsible for all aspects of the classroom. Instruction will include literacy development and content instruction in all subject areas.