Please check the Class Schedule or contact the center for specific course availability for each semester:
DEPTHBSK NUMBER4025 NAMEProfessional and ethical functions of school psychologists
Permission required. Overview of issues associated with the school psychologist’s roles within educational settings including assessment, intervention, and consultation. Education and disability law and ethics are stressed.
Instructor: Stephen Peverly
DEPTHBSK NUMBER4072 NAMETheory and techniques of reading assessment and intervention
Overview of theories, assessment, and intervention techniques for reading and writing across the lifespan. Both typical development and literacy difficulty are addressed. Materials fee: $50.
Instructor: Susan Masullo
DEPTHBSK NUMBER4073 NAMEChildhood Disorders
Information involving the symptoms, life-course, prevalence, and etiology of a number of psychiatric disorders that are manifested in childhood and adolescence is presented. Information involving assessment and treatment is also considered. Psychoeducational assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent disorders. A testing lab is included. Materials fee: $75.
Instructor: Philip Saigh
DEPTHBSK NUMBER4074 NAMEDevelopment of reading comprehension strategies and study skills
Reading and study skills: Practical procedures based on research findings appropriate for teachers, counselors, and others. Discussion focuses on students in the middle elementary grades through young adulthood.
Instructor: Stephen Peverly
DEPTHBSK NUMBER4077 NAMEAdult basic literacy
An examination of the learning of reading and writing by adults who have not achieved full literacy. Populations discussed include adults with learning disabilities, adult basic education students, community college continuing education and developmental education students, immigrants and others who have limited English language proficiency, students in correctional settings, and participants in adult literacy programs outside of the U.S.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER4085 NAMEBehavioral management in the classroom
Behavioral analysis and management techniques applied to the classroom. Observation and recording of behaviors, behavior change, reinforcement schedules, shaping token economies, contingency management, and evaluation of behavior modification. Focuses on applications but includes familiarization with research.
Instructor: Philip Saigh
DEPTHBSK NUMBER4903 NAMEResearch-Independent study in reading
Permission required. Individualized research and fieldwork projects in literacy assessment and intervention.
Instructor: _ Faculty/Staff
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5031 NAMEFamily as a context for child development
Prerequisite: any introductory developmental psychology course. Examines theories of family functioning and empirical evidence of family processes that mediate child and adolescent development outcomes. Emphasis on family factors associated with children’s cognitive, emotional, and academic development, including home-school collaboration and social functioning within cultural contexts. Materials fee: $10.
Instructor: Marla Brassard
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5050 NAMEBehavioral Interventions for School Psychologists
This course is intended to provide school psychology students with information about applied behavior analysis, behavior therapy, and cognitive-behavior therapy. Information pertaining to behavioral assessment, single-case research designs and behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches to the treatment of childhood disorders and problems is considered. Information involving treatment efficacy is a major focus of the course. Materials fee: $20
Instructor: Philip Saigh
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5051 NAMEChild-adolescent PTSD and related disorders
This course presents information about the history, epidemiology, etiology, assessment, prevention, and cognitive-behavioral treatment of child-adolescent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related internalizing disorders. Analogue diagnostic and treatment training is provided. Materials fee: $50.
Instructor: Philip Saigh
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5070 NAMENeural bases for language and cognitive development
Permission required. Examination of neural mechanisms involved in language, reading, and the acquisition of academic skills. Particular attention to language disorders, variations in cerebral organization, and hemisphere specialization.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5085 NAMEObserving and assessing preschool children
Overview of assessment procedures used with preschool and kindergarten-age children including review of related tests, the development of observation procedures, and the development of screening programs. Materials fee: $75.
Instructor: Ann Boehm
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5096 NAMEThe psychology of memory
An analysis of perspectives on human memory with particular attention to knowledge, attention, strategic processes, metacognition, transfer, and context. The application of this information to practice is stressed.
Instructor: Stephen Peverly
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5098 NAMEDiagnosis of reading and writing disabilities
Prerequisites: HBSK 4072 and HUDM 4050. Presents theories and practices of diagnosing dyslexia and other disorders of literacy. Students learn to administer, score, and interpret a test battery and to formulate a diagnosis. Materials fee: $50.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5099 NAMEWriting Interventions Theory and Practice
This is a literacy course that applies research on cognitive, linguistic, affective, social and cultural processes underlying writing performance to the development of writing interventions. Writing is discussed within a larger context of reading comprehension and subject-matter knowledge. Students learn to evaluate and design content area writing interventions for both typically developing and special-needs populations of differing ages in various educational settings.
Instructor: Dolores Perin
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5271 NAMESupervised externship in psychoeducational practice
Supervised experience in a school, hospital, or community clinic focusing on psycho-educational assessment, counseling, remediation, and consultation. Prerequisite: HBSK 5280. Supervisory fee: $100.
Instructor: Britta Rothschild
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5272 NAMESupervised fieldwork in remedial reading and school difficulties: Supervised Field Placement in Reading
Students conduct projects in a variety of field sites, including K-12 schools, community colleges, and adult education programs, under faculty supervision. The field experience provides an opportunity to understand both practical and theoretical aspects of pressing questions concerning literacy acquisition across the lifespan.
Instructor: Dolores Perin
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5273 NAMESupervised experience in supervision
Advanced doctoral students are supervised in their supervision of the comprehensive psycho-educational assessments with clients inthe Center for Educational and Psychological Services performed by first year School psychology students enrolled in HBSK 6380.
Instructor: Marla Brassard
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5280 NAMEFieldwork in school psychological services
Permission required. Limited to second-year students in School Psychology.Must be taken concurrently with HBSK 6382-HBSK 6383. Supervised school-based experience in psychoeducational practice (two days per week for the entire academic year). Includes university-based supervision. Supervisory fee: $100 per semester.
Instructor: Sascha Griffing
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5320 NAMEIndividual psychological testing I
Permission required. This is a yearlong course open to Ed.M. and doctoral students in School Psychology. Background, administration, and interpretation of major psychological tests from both nomothetic and ideographic perspectives. Both courses cover the administration of major cognitive and personality measures and the interpretation and integration of data into case reports. Lecture plus lab/supervisory section. Supervisory fee: $100; materials fee: $50 per term.
Instructor: Michelle Greenwald
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5321 NAMEIndividual psychological testing II
Permission required. This is a yearlong course open to Ed.M. and doctoral students in School Psychology. Background, administration, and interpretation of major psychological tests from both nomothetic and ideographic perspectives. Both courses cover the administration of major cognitive and personality measures and the interpretation and integration of data into case reports. Lecture plus lab/supervisory section. Supervisory fee: $100; materials fee: $50 per term.
Instructor: Marla Brassard
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5373 NAMEPracticum in literacy assessment and intervention I
Prerequisite or corequisite: HBSK 4072, grade of B or better. This is the first of three practica that provide experience in the assessment and instruction of literacy skill including phonemic awareness, decoding, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, expressive writing, and reading comprehension. Students receive clinical practice in administering, scoring, and interpreting a classroom test battery and providing an instructional intervention to a client with literacy difficulty. At this level, students work with children in early childhood and childhood education. All work is conducted in a clinical setting under the guidance of a supervisor and the course instructor. Besides assessment and intervention, students learn to conduct intake interviews and client conferences, conceptualize individuals' learning patterns, interact with parents and other family members, follow ethical guidelines appropriate for the profession, prepare regular documentation, and write case reports to professional standard. Materials fee: $100.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5376 NAMEPracticum in literacy assessment and intervention II
Prerequisite or corequisite: HBSK 4072, HBSK 5373, grade of B+ or better. Students work in a clinical setting to provide assessment and interventions within the context of a diagnostic teaching model for an individual with literacy difficulties. Clinical work is conducted under the guidance of a supervisor and the course instructor. Professional guidelines, practices, and writing continue to be emphasized. Materials fee: $100.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5377 NAMEPracticum in literacy assessment & intervention III
Prerequisite: HBSK 5376, grade of B+ or better. Students gain literacy assessment and intervention experience working with small groups of learners in a school based setting. The practicum focuses on the full developmental range from early childhood through adolescent literacy, including content-area reading and writing. Students have opportunities to work with classroom teachers, literacy teachers, and other school personnel while continuing to adhere to professional ethical guidelines and standards in their assessment, teaching, and preparation of reports. Materials fee: $100.
Instructor: Susan Masullo
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5378 NAMEPracticum in psychoeducational assessment of school subject difficulties
Covers the assessment of academic skills, especially reading, and cognitive functioning. The administration, scoring, and meaningful interpretation of test performance are addressed. Students work in pairs with client.
Instructor: Mary Whelley
DEPTHBSK NUMBER5580 NAMESeminar in consultation and evaluation in reading
Current topics in literacy and schooling; professional issues; evaluation of intervention programs and research; preparation for integrative project requirement.
Instructor: Susan Masullo
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6320 NAMEPracticum in college instruction
Permission required. Supervised experience in preparation of instructional materials and in assessment of student performance at the college and university level.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6380 NAMEPracticum in psychoeducational assessment with culturally diverse students
Permission required. Supervised experience in psychoeducational assessment, including observation, interviewing, and testing of children and youth from culturally diverse backgrounds; integration and interpretation of data. Consideration of intervention procedures. Students work with clients in the Center for Educational and Psychological Services. Additional supervisory session required. Supervisory fee: $100. Materials fee: $50.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6382 NAMEAdvanced practicum in psychoeducational and intervention in schools
Permission required. Concurrent registration in HBSK 5280 required for all School Psychology students. Cognitive-behavioral interventions with children, adolescents, and their families. Special fee: $150.
Instructor: Noelle Leonard
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6383 NAMENeuropsychological assessment of children and adults
Permission required. Prerequisites: BBSN 5033 or BBSN 5070; and HBSK 5320. Analysis, administration, and interpretation of special procedures used to assess brain damage/dysfunction in adults and children. Special fee: $150.
Instructor: Patrick McAuliffe
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6480 NAMESchool psychologist internship
Permission required. Limited to Ed.M. or doctoral students in school psychology. Supervised experience in the delivery of psychological services in approved and appropriate agencies, institutions, and schools.
Instructor: Britta Rothschild
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6570 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: Neurosciences and Education
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6571 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: Cognitive processes and strategies in young children
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Instructor: Ann Boehm
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6572 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: : Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Instructor: Philip Saigh
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6573 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: Text comprehension
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6574 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: Cognitive processes related to studying
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Instructor: Stephen Peverly
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6575 NAMEResearch in Applied Educatrional Psychology: Risk & Resilience in Adolescence
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Instructor: Suniya Luthar
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6576 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: Acquisition of reading and writing ability
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Instructor: Dolores Perin
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6577 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: Psychoeducational aspects of deafness
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Instructor: Robert Kretschmer
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6578 NAMEResearch in applied educational psychology: Family and school violence
Permission required. Prerequisite: familiarity with statistical procedures and research design. Students participate in ongoing research or other special projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Instructor: Marla Brassard
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6584 NAMESeminar: school psychology consultation
In this course, students develop and practice basic skills in school consultation and counseling. Through readings, discussions, presentations and role plays, students demonstrate an understanding of counseling theories and approaches as well as practices consistent with professional ethics and legal standards. Students reflect on their own cultural background and acquire knowledge relevant to cross-cultural consultations.
Instructor: Diane Dillon
DEPTHBSK NUMBER6903 NAMEResearch-independent study in reading
Permission required. Advanced students work with professor on research projects related to literacy skills across the lifespan.
Instructor: Marla Brassard
DEPTHBSK NUMBER7503 NAMEDissertation seminar: Schooling and Reading
Permission required.
Instructor: _ Faculty/Staff
DEPTHBSK NUMBER8902 NAMEDissertation advisement: Schooling and Reading
Permission required. Individual advisement on doctoral dissertations. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term. For more information please see section on continuous registration for Ed.D. degree.
Instructor: _ Faculty/Staff
