Course Listing

HBSK 4025 Professional 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

HBSK 4072 Theory 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

HBSK 4073 Childhood 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

HBSK 4074 Development 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

HBSK 4085 Behavioral 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

HBSK 4903 Research-Independent study in reading

Permission required. Individualized research and fieldwork projects in literacy assessment and intervention.

Instructor: _ Faculty/Staff

HBSK 5031 Family 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

HBSK 5050 Behavioral 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

HBSK 5051 Child-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

HBSK 5070 Neural 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.

HBSK 5096 The 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

HBSK 5098 Diagnosis 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.

HBSK 5099 Writing 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

HBSK 5271 Supervised 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

HBSK 5272 Supervised 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

HBSK 5273 Supervised 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

HBSK 5280 Fieldwork 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

HBSK 5320 Individual 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

HBSK 5321 Individual 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

HBSK 5373 Practicum 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.

HBSK 5376 Practicum 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.