Teaching Students with Severe or Multiple Disabilities

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Annotation (6 credits)

  • Deepen your understanding of teaching students with severe or multiple disabilities. 
  • You’ll focus on students with challenging behaviors and how to use inclusive, strength-based approaches.
  • Completion of this two-course sequence will lead to an annotation on your New York state teacher certification that indicates this special preparation.

Program is Ideal For

  • Graduate students at Nazareth University who have or are working toward certification in students with disabilities. (These courses can fulfill elective credits in inclusive education degree programs.)
  • Professionally certified teachers seeking additional education to teach students with severe or multiple disabilities.

Career Information

  • These courses are good preparation for working in any classroom setting that includes students with severe or multiple disabilities.

Affordability

Grants, scholarships, veterans benefits, partner benefits, loans, and loan forgiveness are options for paying for education graduate degrees. Nazareth’s Graduate School of Education tuition per credit hour.


What to Expect
  • 50 hours of fieldwork with students with challenging behaviors
  • Complete the program by taking one course in the spring and one in early summer

Curriculum
  • Seminar in Supporting Students with Challenging Behaviors in Inclusive Settings
  • Strategies for Breaking the Conflict Cycle and Teaching Students with Challenging Behaviors

Application Process
  • If you are not enrolled in a Nazareth graduate program, complete and submit the post-master's certificate application. Deadlines are on a rolling basis for fall, spring, and summer terms.
  • Nazareth graduate students pursue this extension by signing up for the required courses. (No application.)

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