5344. Pediatric Rehabilitative Audiology

Auditory-based components of managing hearing loss in children; the role of the family and cultural environment in service delivery.

5345. Motor Speech Disorders

The effects of acquired and developmental neuropathology on speech. Emphasis on differential diagnosis and clinical management.

5346. Dysphagia

Dysphagia secondary to neurologic impairments, cancer, and degenerative disease. Anatomy and physiology of normal and disordered swallowing, evaluation including instrumental assessment techniques, and multidisciplinary management.

5348. Language Disorders I: Birth to 5 Years

The nature, assessment, and intervention of delayed and disordered language in children birth to five years of age.

5349. Language Disorders II: School Age Population

The nature, assessment, and intervention of delayed and disordered language in school-age children.

5353. Speech Sound Disorders in Children

Prevention, assessment, and intervention of anatomical, physiological, and language-based disorders affecting the production of speech in children.

5373. Pediatric Audiology

Physiological and perceptual maturation of the auditory system from gestation through two years of age. Assessment of children's hearing, including difficult to test children, public school and neonatal screening.

5378. Augmentative Alternative Communication in Speech-Language Pathology

Addresses the etiologies associated with severe communication impairments and related physical and/or cognitive-linguistic challenges; instructs on the basic principles of AAC assessment and procedures; identifies potential AAC users, appropriate selection of symbols and vocabulary for no, low, mid and/or high-technology systems, seating and positioning, and access; and instructs on the principles of intervention and implementation of AAC systems within the clinic, school, medical, home and community settings across the lifespan.

5315. Sport in Society

The structure and function of sport as an institution, including issues and controversies involving gender, race, and intercollegiate, professional, and children's sports.

5518. Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development

This is a service learning course that requires both classroom participation and community involvement.

5108. Students with Special Needs in the Classroom Environment

Methods for identifying, planning for, and working effectively with children with special needs in the general education classroom. Intended for non-SPED majors only.

5119. Policy, Law, and Ethics in Special Education

The impact of policy and law on the professional role of special educators.

5140. Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities

An examination of relevant legislation and recommended practices related to person-centered transition planning for students with disabilities in post-school and adult life, including postsecondary education, employment, community participation, and independent living.

5141. Classroom and Behavior Management for Special Educators

An introduction to Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), including theoretical and empirical support, three-tiered model, and implementation strategies.

5142. Individualized Positive Behavior Support

Approaches for adapting programs to the behavioral, social and emotional needs of exceptional learners.

5170. Family Centered Practices in Early Childhood Intervention

Illustrates the centrality of the family in the life of infants and young children with disabilities and, subsequently, early childhood intervention. This course relies on outside readings, discussions, and completion of performance-based competencies where concepts are interpreted and applied to early childhood intervention.

5172. Intervention of Early Childhood Disabilities or Delayed Development and Their Families

Illustrates the importance of well planned and executed interventions for infants and young children with high needs and/or disabilities who receive early childhood services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Creation of intervention programs with integrated (across developmental domains) outcomes that stem from a functional assessment and a collaborative team process. This includes interventions and services designed to maximize natural learning opportunities and the use of evaluation tools and progress monitoring for individual children and families as required for federal reporting. Outside readings, class discussions, interactive web-based assignments and completion of performance-based competencies where concepts are interpreted and applied to infants and young children and their families.

5173. Teaching and Collaborating of Infants and Young Children with Disabilities and their Families

Provides a foundation for the inclusion of infants and young children with disabilities and their families into inclusive community settings and programs. Inherent within this framework is the ability for personnel to demonstrate strategic planning to accomplish this on a family, community and program. Outside readings, in-class activities, and individual and group applications of competencies.

5304. School Counseling Program Development and Evaluation

Basic philosophical and professional premises of the counseling profession. History of counseling profession, counselor's roles and functions, role of research/theory in counseling, and professional ethics. Individual group, and preventive counseling approaches.

5307. Professional Orientation of School Counseling

Principles and practices of pupil personnel work in educational institutions including all aspects of pupil personnel services; the role of the school counselor as a pupil personnel worker; and as a consultant on teacher-pupil relations.

5308. Counseling: Theory and Practice

Contemporary theories and practices of essential helping skills.

5318. Human Growth and Development over the Lifespan: Implications for Counselors

A review of human growth and development over the lifespan using psychosocial theory with an emphasis on individual and family transitions, learning processes, personality, developmental crises, gender role conflicts and transitions, ethical issues, and strategies to optimize human potential.

5404. Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Assessment

Diagnosis of school problems, report writing for school purposes, and an analysis of needs for referral.

5430. Childhood Development and Psychopathology

Addresses competencies related to child and adolescent mental disorders, the classification of these disorders, and the basis for diagnosis.

5440. Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Intervention in Schools

Provides students with knowledge and skills related to varied evidence-based methods in psychology and education to promote the social, emotional, and behavioral health and well-being of youth in schools.

5510. Learning: Its Implication for Education

Nature and types of learning, transfer of training, motivation, nature of instructional outcomes, with particular attention to individual differences among elementary and secondary school pupils.

5720. Developing Schoolwide Enrichment Programs

An overview of the theory and research behind and components within the Schoolwide Enrichment Model. Practical techniques for implementing the model in classrooms and school districts.

5201. Essentials of Social Inequality and Health Disparities

Introduction to (a) the extent of health disparities across the US population, (b) how social inequality contributes to health disparities, and (c) why attention to social inequality is essential to the effective practice of clinical medicine and dental medicine. Examination of how society's social, economic, political and cultural institutions are structured and why they perpetuate the unequal distribution of opportunities that systematically limit the life chances and experiences of individuals. A range of social determinants (race/racism, poverty, income inequality, education, environmental conditions, social capital, social cohesion, social mobility, safety/security, criminal justice system) are considered that may influence health, either directly or as pathways for other determinants. Addresses the function of public health assessment, provides students with a conceptual basis for the complementary course, PUBH 5202.

5202. Eliminating Social Inequality and Health Disparities

Examination of the evidence for structural, community, and individual-level interventions to reduce the impact of inequity on health and health care utilization. Identification and implementation of multi-level interventions that may reduce inequities by altering the social, economic, and other structural aspects of the environment. It will also address challenges of implementation and ways to reduce potential barriers. The course builds on the conceptual basis of PUBH 5201.

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