Electives in Learning Disabilities

As examples for students, we have defined possible electives in a variety of areas. These options will be provided to show the kinds of courses available at UBC that can be combined with the LD core courses to create a coherent program. Students could select electives from within or across these areas:

LD/Behaviour Support

	EPSE 432	Classroom Management
	EPSE 433	Assessment and Positive Behavioural Support in School and Community
	EPSE 436	Survey of Behaviour Disorders in Children and Adolescents
	EPSE 437	Intervention for Children and Adolescents with Behaviour Disorders
	EPSE 514	Seminar in Behaviour Assessment and Intervention
	EPSE 515	Seminar in Behaviour Disorders
	EPSE 535	Social-Emotional Assessment in School Psychology
	EPSE 552B	Social-Emotional & Behaviour Interventions

LD/High Ability

	EPSE 516	Seminar in the Education of the Creative and Gifted
	EPSE 565	Social-Emotional Development in Highly-able Learners
	EPSE 598	Field experience focused on High Ability/LD learners.

LD/Assessment

	EPSE 528	Basic Principles of Measurement
	EPSE 529	Test Construction
	EPSE 534	Academic Assessment
	EPSE 535	Social-Emotional & Behavioural Assessment
	EPSE 536	Individual Intelligence Tests
	EPSE 550	Professional, Ethical, and Legal Issues in School Psychology

LD/Collaboration

	EPSE 551	School-based Consultation
	EPSE 565B	Working with families
	EPSE 565C	Working in teams

LD/Foundations in Learning & Development

	EPSE 501	Applications of Educational Psychology
	EPSE 502	Cognition, Language, and Literacy Processes in Education
	EPSE 505	Human Development in Education
	EPSE 584	Motivation in Education
	EPSE 585	Social-Emotional Development in Education

LD/ESL

	LLED	Courses applicable to this topic
	EPSE 598	Field experience focused on ESL/LD learners.

LD/Reading

	EPSE 502	Cognition, Language, and Literacy Processes in Education
	EPSE 552B	Academic Interventions in School Psychology
	LLED 437	Supporting children’s writing development
	LLED 454	Adolescent Literacy
	LLED 456	Identifying and Supporting Learners with Literacy Difficulties
	LLED 552	Theoretical bases for reading research and practice
	LLED 555	Assessment in Reading and Language Arts
	LLED 556	Theory and Research in Early Literacy