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Jul 04, 2025
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2025-2026 College Catalog
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TPS 222 - Understanding Students with Disabilities 3 Contact Hours, 3 Credits 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
Framework for understanding and working with learners with mild-moderate disabilities. Includes characteristics and development of learners with mild-moderate disabilities and special education procedures and processes. Also includes effective educational techniques and collaboration and consultation practices.
Information: Teacher Education Program approval required before enrolling in this course.

Course Learning Outcomes
- Identify critical needs of students with exceptional needs
- Analyze important aspects of the identification process
- Apply characteristics of students with exceptional needs to make appropriate educational decisions
- Utilize effective communication and collaboration strategies
- Create programs and plans for individuals with exceptional needs
Outline:
- Perspectives on Exceptional Education
- History
- Classification Issues & Labeling
- Trends
- Critical Needs of Students with Disabilities
- Cognitive & Perceptual Characteristics
- Constructivist Perspectives
- Cognitive Styles
- Information Processing Theory
- Academic Learning Characteristics
- Motivation
- Learning Styles
- Accommodations
- Modifications
- Assistive Technology
- Social–Emotional Characteristics
- Development
- Relationship Between Problems in Behavior & Problems in Learning
- Identification
- Process & Criteria Issues
- Disproportionate Representation in Special Education
- Response to Intervention (RTI)
- Learners with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
- Assessment
- Prevalence
- Characteristics
- Learners with Learning Disabilities
- Assessment
- Prevalence
- Characteristics
- Learners with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
- Assessment
- Prevalence
- Characteristics
- Learners with Difficulties in Attention, Communication, and Physical & Sensory Functioning
- Assessment
- Prevalence
- Characteristics
- Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Assessment
- Prevalence
- Characteristics
- Language Characteristics
- Impairments in Speech & Language
- Language Functions
- Implications for Thinking & Learning
- Communication & Collaboration
- Parents
- School Personnel
- Programming & Placement Planning
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Individualized Education Program (IEP)
- Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
- Service Delivery Models
- Transition Plans
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