DHH 540 - Content-Area Instruction and Assessment for DHH Students

This course moves beyond traditional literacy instruction for DHH learners and explores content-area instruction. Students will analyze the relationship among language, language modality, literacy, and content area vocabulary and concept learning for DHH learners. A variety of tools and resources will be developed, evaluated, and modified. Students will explore how state standards in the traditional contenta areas (e.g. mathematics, science, history) can be selected and modified for DHH learners and identify appropriate accommodations for statewide standardized testing. The inclusion of instruction beyond the traditional content areas (e.g. social skills, life skills, community based instruction, physical education, the arts, technology/digital literacy) will be explored and justified. Students will develop a comprehensive content-area instructional unit that appropriately addresses state standards/curriculum frameworks, communication and literacy objectives, content-area activities, and incorporates authentic assessment.

(Cr: 3