ECE 406

Field Experience Working with Children with Special Needs

This course provides supervised experience working with children with special needs in an inclusive early care and education setting. Topics include integration strategies, classroom environments, and individualized instructional strategies for children. Emphasis will be on creating modifications, accommodations, and/or adaptations to the environment. In this supervised field experience course, students are enrolled in both a lecture and lab section. Students are required to attend a lab section each week where they have the opportunity to apply and practice what they are learning in the lecture section. The students will be assigned to the Campus Child Development Center during specific times of the day for supervised laboratory experiences.

Units: 4.0

Hours: 36 hours LEC; 108 hours LAB