Course: SPED 537. Teaching Young Children with Extensive Support Needs with Hearing and/or Vision Disabilities (3)
Prerequisite or Corequisite: SPED 431. This course identifies strategies for addressing the language and support needs of infants, toddlers, and young children with extensive support needs whose multiple disabilities include vision and/or hearing disability, including students who are deaf/blind. An emphasis is placed on collaboration with families, teachers of the visually impaired (TVI), teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH), and other related services personnel in leveraging children’s strengths as well as use of vision and hearing, when appropriate, with special attention to language access. Strategies will include approaches to adapting instructional materials, activities, and environments to enhance learning. (Offered once each year.)