A Psychology minor in Exceptional Children prepares teachers for the "mainstreaming" of handicapped children into conventional classrooms. The minor is designed especially for students already involved in teacher preparation of health and psychology-oriented professional programs and for those who plan to undertake graduate study in areas concerned with special children.
The program is administered by a committee of the Psychology Department.
Core Courses
PSY 231: Child Psychology
PSY 331:
Psychology of Exceptional Children
PSY 332: Educational Psychology
PSY
360: Behavior Modification
Elective Courses
(A student must complete 9 hours selected with
the consent of the Advisement Committee)
PSY 250: Psychological Perspectives
on the History of Special Education
PSY 400: Field Study in Psychology (1-15
hours)
PSY 431: The Psychology of Mental Retardation
PSY 432: Psychology
of Learning Disabilities
PSY 433: Behavior Disorders in Educational Settings
Speech
-HH 270: Introduction to Speech Pathology and Audiology
Speech-HH 370:
Articulation and Language Disorders
Speech-HH 473: Neuropathologies of
Language and Speech
Education 459: Practicum in Diagnostic and Corrective
Reading
Recreation 393: Inrtoduction to Therapeutic Recreation
Recreation
413: Techniques and Procedures in Therapeutic Recreation
PED 336: Physical
Education for the Exceptional Child
PED 446: Mainstreaming the Handicapped
in Physical Education
PED 447: Physical Education for the Mentally Retarded
Child
PED 560: Individualized Physical Education for the Handicapped
PED
561 Camping for the Handicapped
PED 562: Diagnostic-Prescriptive Teaching of
the Developmentally Disabled in Physical Education
PED 565: Perceptual Motor
Development
Other courses may be selected through prior advisement and with approval of the Advisement Committee.