Department: EDIS Educ Interven Specialist

Code Name Description
EDIS230IS Workshop in Teaching Intervention Specialist This is an elementary field placement for K-12 (moderate/intensive) Intervention students. This placement requires student contact with children having sensory challenges. The cooperating teacher, must be a licensed intervention specialist teacher. F...
EDIS245 International Perspectives on Disability This course will explore the various theories of disability (ableism/disablism, social, and medical models) and how disability is interpreted by the larger society. People with disabilities are often viewed at being deviant, stigmatized and incompete...
EDIS250 Introduction to Educational Intervention Designed to review the history, legislation, legal definitions, characteristics, and educational concerns of students with need for mild/moderate/intensive educational intervention. Issues of assessment, identification, individualized educational pro...
EDIS251 Orientation to Deaf Culture and Introduction to American Sign Language This course is intended for students who have little or no previous knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL). It introduces students to the Deaf Culture and Deaf Community. It develops elementary conversational skills in American Sign Language. May...
EDIS253 Assistive and Instructional Technology For Intervention Specialist Trains students to use technology and materials specifically to teach and assist exceptional learners. Adaptations to technology and materials typically available and those specifically designed to assist the learner with challenges will be studied.
EDIS257 Sensory Motor-Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive Provides curriculum models, specialized methods, materials and equipment to teach students with moderate and intense special needs in the areas of vision, hearing, sensory motor, physical and health needs.
EDIS257HN Honors Sensory Motor-Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive Provides curriculum models, specialized methods, materials and equipment to teach students with moderate and intense special needs in the areas of vision, hearing, sensory motor, physical and health needs.
EDIS330IS Workshop in Teaching Students With Mild/Moderate/Intensive Educational Intervention in Multiculutral Settings This is a high school field placement for K-12 (mild/moderate/intensive). This is a multicultural placement. Pre-service teachers will work with high school students on curriculum related to career and daily living and behavior support plans. The coo...
EDIS340 Workshop in Teaching Students With Mild/Moderate/Intensive Educational Needs This is a middle school field placement for K-12 (mild/moderate in an inclusive setting). Pre-service teachers will assess and instruct content area subjects. Pre-service teachers will collaborate with families and other school personnel. The coopera...
EDIS342 Assessing and Teaching Children With Mild/Moderate Educational Needs Explores and applies a variety of curriculum options, methods, materials, and technology available for students with mild/ moderate educational needs.
EDIS343 Curriculum and Methods for Career and Daily Living Skills for Students With Needs for Mild/Moderate/Intensive Educational Intervention Emphasis is on curriculum, methods, materials, and technology to be used in teaching career, self-care, community living, personal-social, and occupational skills to students with needs for mild/moderate/intensive educational intervention.
EDIS355 Intervention and Remidiation in Mathematics: Assessment and Instructional Methods This course is designed to teach students assessment and instructional techniques for working with individuals grades K-12 in need of intervention and remediation in mathematics based on the Common Core Mathematics Standards. Emphasis will be placed...
EDIS405 Legal, Social, and Professional Issues For Intervention Specialists A course designed to study current issues in education, with a view toward understanding the issues surrounding special education and its role within education as a social institution. Students review the American legal system and laws governing spec...
EDIS441 Creating Effective Learning Environments This course is designed to introduce the social and emotional growth and needs of students with emotional and/or learning differences. This course teaches pre-service teachers how students with behavior of concern in school settings may be identified...
EDIS442 Communication, Consultation, and Teaming Skills Provides an understanding of effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills, listening skills, and personality traits perceived as supportive. Emphasizes the development of sensitivity to the needs of individuals, families and professionals; col...
EDIS451 Communication: Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive Reliable communication is a vital skill to self-expression. Individuals who experience sensory, motor, perceptual, or executive function differences may develop communication systems that are not reliable means of self- expression. Prospective interv...
EDIS464 Student Internship: Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive Supervised 12-week internship with an Intervention Specialist in a school setting.
EDIS465 Student Internship: Intervention Specialist Mild/Moderate Supervised 12-week internship with an Intervention Specialist in a school setting.
EDIS466 Student Internship: Intervention Specialist Mild/Moderate/Intensive Supervised field experience with an Intervention Specialist in a school setting. Individuals seeking Intervention Specialist licensure must complete this field in an inclusive setting
EDIS498 Independent Study No Description Set
EDIS505 Legal, Social, and Professional Issues For Intervention Specialists A course designed to study current issues in education, with a view toward understanding the issues surrounding special education and its role within education as a social institution. Students review the American legal system and laws governing spec...
EDIS507 Language/Communication Disorders in Children and Intervention An overview of language, both normal and disordered, with emphasis on terminology, acquisition, development, physiological and psychological systems, impact upon learning, assessment, and intervention strategies available to teachers.
EDIS534 Transition and Curriculum Methods for Children With Mild/Moderate Needs Emphasis is on curriculum, methods, materials, and technology to be used in teaching career/self-care/community living/personal- social/occupation skills to students with needs for mild/moderate/intensive educational intervention.
EDIS535 Curriculum Methods for Career and Daily Living Skills for Students With Needs Fo Mild/Moderate/Intensive Education Intervention Emphasis is on curriculum, methods, materials, and technology to be used in teaching career/self-care/community living/personal- social/occupational skills to students with needs for mild/moderate/intensive educational intervention.
EDIS540 Developing Classroom Learning Environments This course is designed to introduce the social and emotional growth and needs of students with emotional and/or learning differences. A positive approach which focuses on the dignity of the student will be emphasized.
EDIS541 Creating Effecitve Learning Environments This course is designed to introduce the social and emotional growth and needs of students with emotional and/or learning differences. A positive approach which emphasizes the dignity of the student will be emphasized.
EDIS542 Communication, Consulting, and Teaming Skills A course designed to provide professionals working within the field of exceptionalities an understanding of effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills, listening skills, and personality traits perceived as supportive. The development of sens...
EDIS546 Introduction to Educational Intervention This course is designed to review the history, legislation, legal definitions, characteristics, and educational concerns of students with need for mild/moderate/intensive educational intervention. Issues of assessment, identification, individualized...
EDIS548 Assessing and Teaching Children With Mild/Moderate Educational Needs Emphasis is placed on developing the ability to use a variety of curriculum, methods, materials, and technology available for educating students with mild/moderate educational needs. Assessment and evaluation techniques for both academic and non-acad...
EDIS549 Assessment and Intervention for Children With Mild/Moderate Educational Needs Emphasis is placed on developing the ability to use a variety of curriculum, methods, materials, and technology available for educating students with mild/moderate educational needs. Assessment and evaluation techniques for both academic and non-acad...
EDIS550 Social and Educational Perspective Of Disability The application of a deficit model to define and respond to individuals with disabilities in schools contributes to community marginalization and social stigmatization. This class focuses upon the interpretative framework of the perceptions and impli...
EDIS553 Intervention and Remediation in Mathematics: Assessment and Instructional Methods This course is designed to teach candidates assessment and instructional techniques for working with individuals grades K-12 in need of intervention and remediation in mathematics based on the Common Core Mathematics Standards. Emphasis will be place...
EDIS579 Special Education Law, Policies, and Procedures The class covers the interpretive framework encompassing recent judicial decisions that emphasize inclusion for students with disabilities. Students review the American legal system and laws governing special education at federal and state levels and...
EDIS581 Assistive and Instructional Technology For Intervention Specialists This course is designed to help students in the Intervention Specialist Program to use technology and materials specifically to teach and assist exceptional learners. Adaptations to typically available technology and materials and those specifically...
EDIS582 Advanced Sensory Motor Intervention This course is designed to provide advanced knowledge of curriculum models, specialized methods, materials, and equipment used to teach young children with special needs in the areas of vision, hearing, sensory motor, physical, and health. A transdis...
EDIS584 Communication: Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive This course is designed to provide curriculum models, specialized methods, materials, and equipment to teach students with moderate and intense special needs in the area of communication a transdisciplinary approach is emphasized.
EDIS585 Communication Field Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive 30 Field Hours. A field placement taken concurrently at the graduate level with EDCI 584. Communication: Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive, to be completed in an inclusive educational setting. Individuals seeking Intervention Specialist lice...
EDIS587 Elementary Intervention Specialist Field Experience 120 Field hours, taken currently with EDIS 549. A.U. graduate students are instructed in the use of both formal and informal assessment techniques to gain a well-rounded perspective of the student's present level of performances across a variety of s...
EDIS588 Middle School Intervention Specialist Multicultural Field Experience 120 Field hours, taken concurrently with EDIS 540. A field experience which emphasizes knowledge of multiculturalism, cultural differences, role of family in a dynamic changing society; interpersonal communication theories, interpersonal relations, h...
EDIS589 High School Intervention Specialist Field Experience 120 Field hours; taken concurrently with EDIS 534. A field experience which emphasizes decision making in assessment, instruction, evaluation, and intervention for students with mild to moderate educational needs and appropriate instructional strateg...
EDIS592 Internship for Intervention Specialist Supervised field experiences in teaching for intervention specialist. Fee required to cover cost of mileage expense for travel by supervisor, copies/materials to students. Individuals seeking Intervention Specialist Licensure must complete this field...
EDIS593 Supervised Clinic Experience for Intervention Specialist Mild/Moderate Supervised field experience with an Intervention Specialist in a Mild/Moderate school setting.
EDIS5XX Education-Intervention Specialist Elective No Description Set
EDIS606 Internship Intervention Specialist Mild/Moderate 12 weeks. Supervised field experience with an Intervention Specialist in a school setting. Fee required to cover cost of mileage expense for travel by supervisor, copies/materials to student.
EDIS607 Internship: Intervention Specialist Moderate/Intensive Supervised field experience with an Intervention Specialist-Moderate/Intensive in a school setting.
EDIS608 Internship: Intervention Specialist Mild/Moderate/Intensive Supervised field experience split between a school setting with an Intervention Specialist-Mild/Moderate and a school setting with an Intervention Specialist-Moderate/Intensive.
EDIS650 Nature and Needs of the Talented A background course designed to acquaint the students with the definitions, characteristics, potentialities, abilities, and learning styles of talented students. Categories and definitions of students with gifts and talents, including identification...
EDIS651 Curriculum Development for Education Of the Talented This course examines curriculum processes necessary for providing a differentiated education for the talented. Students will analyze and develop instructional materials based on useful and research-based models for differentiating instruction with re...
EDIS652 Development and the Supervision of Programs for the Talented This course is designed to develop educators' knowledge and skills in the administration of talent development education programs. Graduate students will explore the steps in developing talent development education programs, including needs assessmen...
EDIS653 Guidance and Counsel for the Talented This course examines social and emotional, guidance and counseling theories and practices necessary for providing a holistic and differentiated education for the talented. Students will define and analyze social and emotional needs, and guidance and...
EDIS654 Creativity Studies for Teachers of the Talented This is a course in creativity studies with a focus on the field of the education of the talented and gifted. Creativity will be discussed with regard to the creative person and what makes him/her creative and the creative process. Graduate student...
EDIS710 Field Practicum for Talent Development This field practicum emphasizes the application of knowledge gained in the Talent Development program. This is a 2-semester hour practicum experience where students must log 90 clock hours, 50 directly with identified gifted students. Candidates sele...
EDIS781 Thesis Capstone in Talent Development Education A coordinated research experience in which the candidate will design and conduct an in-depth study of an issue or innovation in talent development education, either through field-based gathering of data or extensive reading and synthesis of the profe...
EDIS788 Capstone Inquiry Seminar: Talent Development Participants work collaboratively to explore a topic or issue related to Talent Development in the areas of curriculum, instruction, or such foundational concepts as the social, cultural, political, and psychological factors that influence schools an...
EDIS796 Internship in Talent Development Education This course provides an internship experience with identified gifted and talented students so that the student can demonstrate the knowledge gained in the prerequisite classes. This is a 3-semester hour experience of 90 clock hours, 50 directly with...
EDISELCT Education Intervention Specialist Elective No Description Set