| Required Courses |
Credit Hours |
| Special Education Endorsement (34-37 credits) |
| Required Core (9 credit hours required) |
| ERLA 501 |
Understand Lit/Lang Dev |
3 |
| EDUC 508 |
Instruc of Excep Learners |
3 |
| EDUC 570 |
Teaching/Learning Theories |
3 |
| Special Education Requirements (12 credit hours required) |
| ESPN 502 |
Commun, Collab & Consult-Special Ed |
3 |
| ESPN 503 |
Behavioral Dimensions of Students with Special Nee |
3 |
| ESPN 504 |
Dev. and Implementation of Individual Ed. Programs |
3 |
| ESPN 505 |
Assessing Students with Special Needs |
3 |
| Endorsement Area (select one of the following endorsement areas) |
| Teachers of Students with Mental Impairments (13 credits) |
| ESPN 530 |
Basic Concepts in Mental Impairments. |
3 |
| ESPN 532 |
Teaching the Student with Mild Mental Impairments |
3 |
| ESPN 534 |
Teaching the Student w/Moderate-Severe Mental Impa |
3 |
| ESPN 592 |
Directed Teaching - Special Needs |
4 |
| Teachers of Students with Learning Disabilities (13 credits) |
| ERLA 533 |
Students w/Reading Difficulties |
3 |
| ESPN 520 |
Intro to the Student with Learning Disabilities |
3 |
| ESPN 522 |
Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities |
3 |
| ESPN 592 |
Directed Teaching - Special Needs |
4 |
| Teachers of the Early Childhood Developmental Delay (16 credits) (Students choosing this area must be endorsed in another area of Special Education & have an Early Childhood Endorsement, major, minor or degree) |
| ESPN 510 |
Current Research/Policy in Early Childhood Special |
3 |
| ESPN 512 |
Methods-Assessing Young Children w/Special Needs |
3 |
| ESPN 515 |
Methods in Early Childhood Special Education |
3 |
| ESPN 592 |
Directed Teaching - Special Needs |
4 |
| Teachers of Students with Autism (13 credits) |
| ESPN 540 |
Basic Concepts in Autism |
3 |
| ESPN 542 |
Curriculum and the Autistic Child |
3 |
| ESPN 546 |
Working with Parents and Professionals |
3 |
| ESPN 592 |
Directed Teaching - Special Needs |
4 |
| Minimum semester credit hours required: |
34 |
