Bachelor of Arts in Special Education - Exceptional Needs (Early Childhood Special Education)

Ball State University

Ball State's teaching major in exceptional needs: early childhood special education prepares you for a fulfilling career working with infants and toddlers with special needs.As a graduate, you will work in preschools, developmental centers, and agency-based programs serving young children with disabilities. Included in the early childhood major is coursework that leads to a teaching license in Mild Interventions (K-6).In addition to rigorous coursework, our program emphasizes real-world field experience and culminates in a student teaching experience completed in two different settings, early childhood and mild interventions (K-6).As part of our comprehensive special education program, you will learn theory and practices in early childhood special education, assessment of children with exceptional needs, teaching methods for mild interventions, and more.work with a variety of learners.administer and interpret norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessments.make the connection between assessment and instruction.be prepared for Response to Intervention (RtI) and progress monitoring.