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CEUG 2100U (AASU)
Introduction to Students with Disabilities (3 semester hours)

This course can be taken
    -> as a print course

Lessons for this course can be submitted and/or be returned
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UGA Equivalent: SPED 2000 - Survey of Special Education

Prerequisite: See your university catalog.

Individuals with special needs, including possible impact, causes, and characteristics of specific needs across life spans and cultural diversity. Topics include legal requirements, ethical implications, education strategies, collaboration between regular and special educators, inclusion, family involvement, and current issues relating to individuals with special needs.

Requirements: Ten lessons and one examination.

Special Projects or components: Internet and Library Research, Interviews with a Disabled Student and with a Special Ed Teacher

Instructor: Pamela Harwood, Ed.D., Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Textbooks: Hallahan and Kauffman, Exceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education, (10th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2006.

Hallahan and Kauffman, Cases for Reflection and Analysis for Exceptional Learners, (10th ed.), Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2006.