Resources for Special Education

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Columbia University 的Teacher College 具有典范作用，所以先介绍该校Special Education。
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/hbs/SpecialEd/progdesc.htm

Special Education: Program Description

The special education programs at Teachers College build upon a more than 75-year tradition of leading the field of special education in policy, practice, and research for individuals with disabilities across the age span.

Students who earn M.A., Ed.M., Ed.D., and Ph.D. degrees in special education from Teachers College assume leadership and scholarly positions at all levels of professional activity including public and private schools, community and national service agencies, hospital and rehabilitation programs, colleges and universities, research centers, and local, state, and federal educational agencies.

The graduate course work, independent studies, research projects, and dissertations draw from the following five areas:

Special Education Foundations. Includes course work on theories of process and models of practice, cognitive structure and process, behavioral selectionism and complex behavior, disability constructs, equity and excellence in public policy, psycholinguistics and verbal behavior, and family studies and child development.

Service Delivery Systems. Includes administration and supervision, pedagogy, enrichment and acceleration, interdisciplinary programming, community-based systems change, infancy/early childhood intervention, elementary education, transition and habilitation, urban education, and technology.

Exceptionality Areas. Provides course work in behavioral disorders (e.g., autism, emotional disturbance), blindness and visual impairment, deafness and hearing impairment, mental retardation and intellectual disability (including autism), physical disabilities, and multiple handicapping conditions including intellectual disabilities coupled with sensory and/or physical disabilities.

Assessment and Intervention Strategies. Includes management of social and unsocial behavior, communication and language, mobility, mathematics, reading, problem solving, visual skills and visual perceptual processing, and self-regulation.

Research and Evaluation. Includes applied behavior analysis, experimental research with individuals, group experimental design, program evaluation, ethnography, and post-positivistic inquiry.
In addition to lectures and seminars in the preceding five areas of study, students participate in special projects and complete practicum assignments in a variety of settings, which include the following:  
The Center for Educational and Psychological Services provides learner-centered demonstrations of assessments and evaluations, instructional practices, and follow-up evaluations that promote student-directed learning and performance across settings and time. Special education students work in collaboration with students from school psychology, health and nutrition as well as clinical and counseling psychology programs.

The Center is housed in excellent facilities at Teachers College and provides opportunities for practicum experience and research-based demonstrations of effective practice. The Center has an extensive remediation and testing library, and testing rooms, observation rooms, and audio and video recording capabilities available for graduate student use.

The Center for Opportunities and Outcomes for People with Disabilities provides support for research, evaluation, and demonstration efforts aimed at increasing opportunities for individuals with special needs to become fully included members of society.

The Center provides opportunities for students to participate in research and evaluation projects in such areas as diversity and cultural differences; language and communication; motivation and verbal behavior; systems of schooling and models of service delivery; inclusion and its social impact; families and siblings; cognition, personality, problem solving, and self-regulated thinking; reading, literacy, and the arts; interpersonal decision-making and abuse prevention, personnel preparation; social justice and social policy; and self-determination and independence.

The Fred S. Keller School, New Rochelle CABAS?Program, David Gregory School and The Margaret Chapman School serve as training and research sites for students enrolled in the behavioral disorders and behavior analysis programs in special education. These schools use comprehensive applications of behavior analysis (CABAS? within a cybernetic system. They provide training and research that is responsive to student behavior and consistent with the epistemological tenets of behavioral selectionism. Students in the M.A. Program in Behavioral Disorders are required to do their practica at CABAS?schools.

The Department maintains close working relationships with a wide network of public and private schools, agencies, and clinical facilities. Students may participate in field-based activities ranging from the Very Special Arts Festival hosted by the New York City Board of Education and Teachers College to tutoring -programs for children with -disabilities living in neighborhood communities.

Financial Aid
In addition to College-wide financial aid, instructional, research, and administrative internships may be available through the Program in Special Education. The Department collaborates with schools and agencies in the metropolitan area to provide internships. When funds are available, federal traineeships and assistantships are awarded by the program to qualified students. In order to be eligible for a federal traineeship, an applicant must be a United States citizen and be fully admitted to a degree program.
Students are encouraged to apply for all types of financial aid for which they are eligible. Paid internships are available for some students who have been admitted to the Program in Behavioral Disorders. The New York City Board of Education has, for a number of years, provided full scholarships for anyone interested in becoming a teacher for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, and blind or visually impaired. Endowed fellowships and research assistantships are available to students who are preparing for careers in the education of people with mental retardation and intellectual disability.



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Thank you  so much

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楼上真想学special education吗？
偶考虑过，但还是狠不下心。哎。