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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
SPED 1302: Intoduction to Special Education 2
Dr Maha Abdullah Orkubi
Office hours: Sat, Mon., Wed 12:00 am-1: oopm
Office: room 217
Tel: Office: 630-3333 ext. # 227
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته و كل عام و انتم بخير
Welcome back to our Secound Inagural semester at the special education program. I hope you had a great holidays with your families. It has been an exiting holidays having Ramadan, Eid and the beginning of the New Millinuim.
It was my pleasure having you as my students for our first inaugural semster. I belief that you had a good introductory course to the world of special needs children especially with high incidence disability. It’s a wonderfull world and a fulfilling and a rewarding career that you have chosen. I was impresed seeing the changes that was happening to you. You developed infront of me from shy, hestinant, quit spoken girls in to clear, outspoken, critical thinkers. I am so proud of you. I am pleased with your undertaking for learning and questioning and I trust you to continue this road of knowledge and education. The road of learning is endless and your quest has just began. Do not be hasty and impatient with your self or with the future. Everythings takes its time to mature and grow. I am sure you will grow to great human beings if you follow that path of learning and knowledge.
We begin this millinuim in the winter session, Jan 2000, with Introductory to Low Incidence Disability course. It is three Semester Credit Hour Course.
In this course you will learn issues and trends in the field of special education related to learners with special needs. Our focus in this course on learners with Low Incidence disabilities: Severe mental retardation, phsical disabilities, hearing impairments, visual impairments, health impairments, and multiple disabilitis. You will continue learning the vocabulary of special education terms in English and Arabic as well.
Course Topics
Our course will introduce these topics:
- Introduction to Low incidence Disabilities
- History of special Education in Saudi Arabia with Low Incidence disabilities
- Cross cultural Trends in Special Education with Low Incidence Disabilities
- Physical Disabilities
- Severe Mental Retardation
- Hearing Impairmnet
- Visual Impairment
- Health Impairment
- Multiple Disabilities
10. Identification of topics journals and key resources for parents and teachers of individuals with Low Incidence Disabilities.
Assignments
As the previous course (SPED1301) the assigmnets are the same:
- All students must complete by the end of the semester a minimum of 12 hours of classroom Observations in a local center or a school serving persons with disability. All students are required to keep a journal of their experiences. A weekly journal has to be handed in at the first five minutes of the first Saturday of the week. I will accept the same week late journals with a penality of one point detucted for each lecture day. Any journals given later than one week will not be accepted. No make up journals.
The journals have a specific format, which you need to follow, and should be no longer than two typed pages long. Each journal should be edited or two points will be deducted from the five points. (five points for each of the four observations’ journal).
Keep adding the new observations in your old note nook about the centers. You should record all the details about the event. Submit your hand written observation notebook two weeks before the final week. Late note books will have five points detucted from the total points. Your note book should include all the details about the observation trip: the place, the people and their titles, the program, and all the minute details and your reactions. (Note book 15 points)
- There will be a the famous weekly quiz at the beginning of every week. The quiz will take 10 mineutes. The quiz will cover the materials for the week before. Each quiz will cover all the handsout materials, lecture notes, and the reading assigned for the previous week. There will be a make up quiz for medical emergencies only, if you missed any quiz it will be your loss. (Ten quizes, each is 15 points).
Please be advised The quiz will start at the beginning of the hour, those who attend late will not be given extra time.
- There will be two midterm exams that you have to take in this course. The midterms will cover all the materials in the handsout, assigned reading, lecture notes. The exams will be one hour long. (50 points each)
- There is small Abstract Paper Each student will research a topic in special education relating to the education of individuals with High Incidence disabilities. The student based on her interest will choose this topic. The paper should have at least two citations for references and they are handed in with the paper; 5 pages and is typed doubled spaced. The paper will be due one week before finals week. The paper will discuss two articles in depth and uses the writing styles that were introduced in the English language courses. Your paper Should Have an introduction section, middle paragraphs and a final paragraph were you should summarize the articles and then react to them in the end of your paper as a summery paragraph. The paper will be due the ninth week. The Paper should have introductory and a conclusion paragraphs. You should have a theseis statement at the introductory chapter. Or you will compare and contrast between these two articles and react to them. (25 points)
- Final Exam: two-hour final exam. (50 points)
Grading
Class participation 10%
Journals, and Notebook 30%
TwoMidterm Tests 20%
Ten Quizzes 20%
Abstract Paper 10%
Final Exam 10%
Instructor Policy
It is essential in my class to attend all sessions and participate in the classroom discussions. If you miss more than three classes your grades will suffer. Please inform me a head of time of absence and if there are emergencies please call the Office of Acadimic Affairs (Ext 103). If you miss a lecture try to get the class notes from your colleagues.
Classroom participation is a very important part of your learning. Therfore attendance is crucial. The materials presented at the lecture are outside the book therfore it is important for you to attend on time and participate in the discussions. Expressing your unique ideas and thoughts is fundamental for your learning, growth and development in to mature adult women. Please do not be stingy with them. Don’t be afraid you will make mistakes because we all do, including me. Further, do not worry if your arguments are right or wrong, even if they contradict with the current views, as long you can support them with evidence you will be able to validate your argument. In addition, our discussions are meaningful for my own learning and development. You will have an ample opportunity to develop these expressive skills.
Policies regarding writen assigmnet:
All written assigmnets has to be edited before handing them. Your writen language is the way you communicate and express your thoughts and ideas. I will not be able to appreciate them or comperhend them if you have so gramatical mistakes. It will make my job is try to understand you rather than follow your logic and ideas. Therfore, do use the English Writting Lab to help you edit your journals and paper. If you wish to write in Arabic You are welcome to do so. However, the same rules applies. You have to the papers edited in Arabic by Dr Saeeda. You should make apoitments with both language editors a head of time so you can hand in your papers on time.
Policies regrading late assignments:
Late journals will have a penality of one point detucted for each lecture day later than the due date. Any journals given later than one week will not be accepted. No make up journals.
Late notebooks will have five points detucted from the total grade.
There will be a make up quiz for medical emergencies only, if you missed any quiz it will be your loss.
Ther will be no make up midterms unless death or medical emergencies. No Late Abstract paper will be accepted. You had the whole semester to work on it
Please be advised The quiz will start at the beginning of the hour, those who attend late will not be given extra time. No make up for the quizes except with a medical emergency
Please refer to the student handbook on information on grades, school calendar, student’s rights and responsibilities
Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions, and please do use my office hours, they are made for you. Please call me any time if you have any concerns or issues that you want to discuss.
Good Luck & Best Wishes
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