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NEW! Bi-National Teacher Education Project: Providing Effective Instruction for Transnational Students
This course (offered in Spanish) is held in Oaxaca, Mexico. It presents critical information on the effective instruction of Mexican transnational students and provides an immersion context in Mexico.
NEW! Assessment and Testing Literacy
Examine testing and assessment issues as they apply to special populations of learners, including English Language Learners and students with special needs.
Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Learn how to create and support a culture of continuous improvement at the classroom, school and district levels.
Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders
Explore the latest research on potential causes, best practices for assessment and intervention, areas of impairment, as well as current legal and ethical issues related to autism services. Course includes instruction and lectures by faculty from the UC Davis MIND Institute, an international leader in the field of autism research.
Applied Behavior Analysis Strategies and Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Examine such strategies as positive reinforcement, teaching of functional-equivalent replacement behaviors, shaping, prompting, errorless learning, discrete trial teaching, as well as other naturalistic behavioral strategies.
Featured Certificate Program
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Building on the three-course professional concentration program, the certificate offers advanced coursework designed to strengthen the clinical competencies of special educators and other licensed professionals who work with special needs children.
Credit Services
UC Davis Extension is pleased to partner with other professional development providers, such as county offices of education, to award university credit for participation in high quality programs. Learn more.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
As the only autism program affiliated with the prestigious UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, we are proud to provide the highest quality, research-based education available in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Learn more.
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