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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog (Edited Version)
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ED 551 - Introduction to Special Education

3 Credit(s)

This course is designed to provide students with a critical overview of special education including its history, the classification and description of exceptionalities, and its legal regulation. Major issues related to identification, assessment, educational and therapeutic interventions, social/psychological aspects, and inclusion are examined.
Requisite(s): ED 507 , ED 517 , or ED 518  and ED 511 .


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