Faculty Name

Tara Tuchel

Document Type

Syllabi

School

HSE

Department

CS

Course Subject

SPED

Course Number

7103

Course Section

01

Course Title

ASD:Comm, Asmt, and Intrvntn

Academic Term and Year

Summer 2016

Credits

2.00

Course Description

This course is required for students pursuing the ASD license (meets required competencies). It is one of two choices for an assessment class in the ASD certificate program, providing educators with an overview of the communication characteristics of individuals with ASD and exploring current assessment tools and strategies related to communication. The following areas will be addressed: development of social communication and its relevance in ASD, communicative characteristics across the autism spectrum, formal and informal assessment tools and strategies currently used to evaluate communication, including the use of informal tests to evaluate communicative functions, social communication, non-verbal language and play skills, use of assessment results to identify needs and develop intervention plants, and principles of guiding language intervention in ASD.

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