SPE 616 - Evidence-Based Practices in Behavior Intervention

Credit Hours: 3-4

Understanding and implementing evidence-based practices within a classroom are essential for student success. This course focuses on evidence-based strategies to implement with children and adolescents within a school and clinic setting. Students will complete a wide variety of empirically validated competencies (e.g., reinforcement inventories, preference assessments, token economies, self-monitoring, function-based teaching strategies, class wide function interventions, functional assessment and behavior intervention planning). A focus on positive behavioral approaches within a multi-tiered approach will also be discussed and implemented. Students enrolled in this graduate-level version of SPE 515 will have additional advanced expectations. Specifically, students will extend one or more practicum-based assignments through a critical analysis supported by peer-reviewed research, demonstrating the ability to connect applied behavioral practice with current scholarship. Students in the SEACT program will take this course for 4 credit hours (3 lecture, 1 lab), others will take just the 3 hours of lecture content. May be taught concurrently with SPE 515. Cannot receive credit for both SPE 515 and SPE 616.

Prerequisite: admission to the Special Education program or Early Childhood Special Education program.
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 1

Typically Offered: Demand