SPED-5450 : School Consultation and Intervention: Action-Based Research

This 3-credit course provides an overview of the foundations of collaboration and research-based interventions that includes effective communication skills in culturally diverse schools and communities and addresses ethics and advocacy. Within this framework the course will convey essential concepts in successful and research-based interventions and evaluation strategies to design interventions and determine effectiveness. Students will learn collaborative school consultation skills and use these skills to develop and implement intervention strategies while designing and conducting action research. This course will provide students skills to effectively consult with teachers, families and other professionals who work with or have children and adolescents with disabilities and from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds including English Language Learners who are presenting learning and/or behavioral difficulties. Requisites may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.