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Online Class: Special Education 101: Foundations, Purpose, & Challenges

Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Course Description

Special Education 101 is the first in a series of relevant, innovative and dynamic courses developed and taught by a leading educator in this field.

Man in wheelchair This course explains why people with disabilities deserve respect rather than pity in their quest for full engagement in school and post school life, why special education is mandated by policy and law to meet the education needs of students with disabilities, how its goals are affected by the nation's commitment to equalize educational opportunities for this group of learners, the revolutionary basis of these equal opportunity goals, why an equalized educational experience should empower students with disabilities to be self-determined at school and beyond, and how current practice falls far short of these equal rights expectations.

This self-paced online class is ideal for teachers wanting to update their professional skills, classroom assistants seeking more knowledge about the field and parents trying to understand how best to argue for equal opportunities. Be informed and inspired without the hassle of commuting or matching a pre-determined schedule. If you are a well-disciplined and motivated learner, you will thrive in our instructor-led environment.

This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

Introduction - This course explains why special education is mandated by law, what its main goals are, as well as why it has yet to achieve its central purpose of improving self-determination prospects of students with disabilities.
The Equal Opportunity Foundation - Lessons describe the pity based justifications for helping people with disabilities.
The Emergence of Equal Opportunity Ethics - Describes the basis of special education law: equal opportunity ethics
Legitimizing the Equal Opportunity Ethic - Describes the events that led to equal opportunity policies
Equal Opportunity for People with Disabilities - Lessons describe events leading to the equal opportunity promise for people with disabilities
The Three Self-Determination Revolutions - Lesson describes the third self-determination revolution responsible for promoting equal opportunity principles
Equalizing Educational Opportunities for Black Students - Lesson describes the study that provided the basis for the first equal educational opportunity policy.
Applying the Equal Opportunity Principle for Students with Disabilities - Lesson describes how special education policy was based on the Brown decision as well.
Explaining How Equal Opportunity Affects Self-Determination - Lesson describes the logic behind equal opportunity policy affecting people's capacities and opportunities for self-determination
How Special Education Affects Students with Disabilities - Describes the unintended consequences of special educaiton policy on the education of students with disabilities.
Conclusions - Summarizes major points of course and their connections with the next course in the sequence: Special Education: Advocacy, Law, and Policy

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