Early Intervention Child Development (EICD)
EICD 2213 Foundations of Literacy
Designed specifically for the undergraduate Early Intervention Child Development candidate. The focus of this course is emergent literacy.
EICD 3013 Intro to Research & Writing in Early
Childhood This course is a broad introduction to the methods used in behavioral science research, including how to search the research literature of the disciplines of early intervention and child development. The course includes instruction regarding reading and writing research papers and using the American Psychological Association (APA) writing style. Completion of at least 50 credit hours of coursework required.
EICD 3024 Families and the Developing Child
This course focuses on instruction in parent-child relations, parenting practices, special needs of children, parental and environmental influences on child development, external support services, and related public policy issues. This course also includes instruction in the intellectual, social, emotional, and biological development of children and the planning and design of related human services. Particular emphasis will be placed theory into practice model in which best practice is applied to family-centered intervention for parents of all ages, including adolescent parents so that the early intervention programs are family friendly.
EICD 3034 Professional and Ethical Practice
Ethical and professional practice standards and the professional educator’s multiple roles and complex situations across a wide age and development range. Participation in learning communities and professional activities that benefit individuals with early learning needs, their families and colleagues will included.
EICD 3044 Individual Learning Differences in Young
Children With Disabilities Understanding, valuing and supporting people with severe and profound and moderate disabilities, their families, and their cultures. Focuses on physical, sensory, medical, and health aspects of child development, including etiology and symptomatology of developmental disabilities affecting development. Emphasizes positioning, handling, adaptive strategies, and understanding of assistive technology devices. Focuses on the understanding of roles of related disciplines in collaborative planning and service delivery.
EICD 3064 Collaboration with Families, Health/Mental
Health Professionals Communities The importance and complex characteristics of children’s families and communities and how to use this understanding to create respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families, and to involve all families in their children’s development and learning.
EICD 4074 Assessment and Intervention for Infants
and Toddlers: Birth-4 A study of the assessment and intervention for infants and young children from birth through three years with particular emphasis on using developmental knowledge of young children’s characteristic and needs to create effective learning environments. Examines the full range of assessment issues: from test development to cultural competence. With an emphasis on family-centered practices, the impact of a child’s every day environment and the value of collaborative decision-making in order to understand the whole child who has a developmental delay or a disability.
EICD 4084 Assessment & Research Based
Instruction: Literacy and Reading This cousre will include Research Based Instruction (RBI), increasing in intensity to individualized intervention in the area of literacy and reading for young children, targeting birth to pre-K. Topics include language development and emergent literacy skills; reading sub skills, auditory discrimination, phonemic awareness, decoding word recognition and reading comprehension. Developmental reading will be included.
EICD 4113 Language Development
Examines strategies to develop language, literacy, and communication in young children with varying abilities. Explores the importance of adult-child interaction, as well as the effect of bilingualism, cultural diversity, cognitive ability, and language disorders. This course also addresses the need for augmentative communication, typical and atypical language development, the ways in which exceptional conditions can interact with an individual’s experience with and the use of language and individualized strategies to enhance language development, and communication skills.
EICD 4983 Seminar
Small group study of a topic in early intervention and child development announced by the department. Departmental permission is required. Completion of at least 50 credit hours on transcript required.
EICD 5123 Orientation to Early Intervention & Ethical
Practice This course provides information related to professional roles and responsibilities and ethical responsibilities of early childhood professionals to children, families, colleagues, community, and society. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Code of Ethics will be reviewed, and ethical dilemmas will be explored.
EICD 5243 Human Growth and Development
This course introduces studies that provide an understanding of the nature and needs of persons at all developmental levels and in diverse cultural contexts. This course also provides a systemic study of human development emphasizing physical, personality, cognitive, moral, and psychosocial developmental theories and issues, with an emphasis on facilitating optimal development and wellness over the lifespan. [CACREP Standard 3-Human Growth and Development] Instructor consent required.
EICD 5253 Assessment in Early Childhood
This course covers early childhood assessment in a culturally diverse society. It includes legal issues, technical aspects, assessment models, environmental analysis, and observational assessment. It also covers assessment of sensory, cognitive, social-emotional, communication, motor development, and adaptive skills.
EICD 5263 Advanced Psychology Child &
Adolescence A study of selected theories and significant areas of research contributing to the understanding of child and adolescent behavior and development including a general framework for understanding differing abilities and strategies for differentiated interventions (CACREP 2.3.L., 2016) Instructor consent required.
EICD 5283 Typical & Atypical Development in
Childhood & Adolescence This course provides an in-depth study of child and adolescent development with emphasis on typical and atypical development, prevention, assessment, and intervention. Students will immerse themselves in the research literature on the topics covered in the course and share the knowledge they discover with fellow students. Students will complete a final project demostrating their ability to apply knowledge gained in the course to their work with children in their of specialty.
EICD 5353 Assessment and Intervention Infants and
Young Children This course provides an in-depth study of early childhood assessment and intervention with an emphasis on conducting authentic assessments during children’s natural routines and play. It will cover the utilization of assessments to inform effective program planning and assessing children with diverse abilities. Students will learn how to utilize interventions to address communication development, sensory processing, motor development, and vision and hearing impairments. They will learn how to infuse interdisciplinary interventions into the child’s daily routine and develop an understanding involving families and professionals as collaborative partners in the assessment and intervention process. Students will complete a final project demonstrating their ability to apply knowledge gained in the course to their work and children in their field of specialty.
EICD 5863 Research in EICD
This course provides an understanding of research methods, statistical analysis, and needs assessment strategies in the field of professional counseling. This course is designed to assist the student in becoming a critical consumer of research methods such as qualitative, quantitative, single-case designs, action research, and outcome-based research studies. Students are also introduced to ethical and culturally relevant strategies for interpreting and reporting the results of research studies accurately and effectively. Instructor consent required.
EICD 5980 Seminar
Small group study of a topic in early intervention and child development announced by the department. Instructor consent required.