DSPS 10-College Orientation for Students with Disabilities
3 Units
Introduces students with disabilities to college, including campus resources and college success factors. Explores strategies to increase self-efficacy and self-esteem. Topics include: self-advocacy, college resources, self-management, educational accommodations, effective learning methods, and goal setting.
DSPS 11-Assessment of Learning Disabilities
1 Unit
Introduction to types and causes of learning disabilities and the legal definition of “learning disabled.” Assessment according to statewide assessment procedure. Understanding learning patterns, identifying educational limitations, and evaluating appropriate support services. Orients students to Mt. SAC’s Learning Disability Program.
DSPS 15-Personalized Career Exploration for Students with Disabilities
1 Unit
Self-evaluation including interests, experiences, personality, values, and disability-related limitations as they relate to educational and career decisions. Identification of skills and resources, including those that relate to disability factors. Students who repeat this course will improve skills through further instruction and practice.
DSPS 16-Educational and Career Options for Students with Disabilities
1 Unit
Students will identify educational and career options. Emphasis on strategies that facilitate disability-sensitive career and educational planning. Barriers to employment and other disability issues are addressed. Students who repeat this course will improve skills through further instruction.
DSPS 20-Improving Spelling and Reading of Words
3 Units
Students with Learning Disabilities can improve their reading and spelling skills for multi-syllabic words by taking this course. They can increase their understanding of the sounds of letters and the oral movements needed to produce them. Common “rules” for reading and spelling words in English are also incorporated in the class. Students who repeat this course will improve their skills through further instruction and practice.
DSPS 30-Academic Success Strategies for Students with Disabilities
1 Unit
Strategies for academic success in relationship to disabilities. Primary emphasis will be on the effects of and strategies for auditory processing, language expression, memory, fluid reasoning and performance speed. Secondary emphasis will be on strategies to improve subject-specific performance.
DSPS 31-Memory Strategies for Students with Disabilities
3 Units
Principles of the memory process as it applies to academic coursework. Focus on understanding the memory process, improving specific memory components, identifying key concepts to memorize, and the independent application of memory strategies to students’ other academic courses.
DSPS 63-Improving Communicative Effectiveness
3 Units
Develops effective communication skills for interpersonal communication and public presentations. Increases skills in effective listening, speaking conversationally, attending to the nonverbal and social “rules” of communication, and making oral presentations to a group. Prepares students for SPCH 1A or other speech classes. Students who repeat this course will improve skills through further instruction and practice.
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