OLPD 5356 is also offered in Spring 2025
OLPD 5356 is also offered in Spring 2024
OLPD 5356 is also offered in Summer 2023
OLPD 5356 is also offered in Spring 2023
OLPD 5356 is also offered in Summer 2022
OLPD 5356 is also offered in Spring 2022
OLPD 5356 is also offered in Summer 2021
Spring 2025 | OLPD 5356 Section 001: Disability Policy and Services (50110)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Thu 04:40PM - 07:20PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Policy, research, and current practices related to education, health, and social services that support children, youth, and adults with special needs, and that support their families. Federal, state, and local perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- Location of this course: Room: MIDB-1-1-510 RFSS Community Ctr Multipurpose Rm, 2025 E. River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55414
- Class Description:
This course will provide an overview of policy and services for people with disabilities, with a specific focus on people with intellectual and related developmental disabilities (IDD). Presentations and discussions of policies and services affecting community living, education, employment, and self-advocacy are central to this course, with specific emphasis on the importance of person-centered approaches for personal choice and control.Throughout the course, collaborative and interdisciplinary perspectives will be emphasized, as contemporary services are provided across multi-disciplinary contexts. The course will draw on the expertise of a wide variety of researchers and staff at the University, as well as people with disabilities, family members, and working professionals within community-based settings.- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Graduate students across campus interested in disability as a civil rights issue and policy issue, as well as students interested in an overview of disability-related supports and services in MN. This is also the core course required of all Disability Policy and Services certificate students, whether they are graduate degree-seeking or not. Requests for special permission to register will be at the review and discretion of the instructor.
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. Know information about the nature of disabilities, with a primary focus on intellectual and other developmental disabilities, including prevalence, characteristics and abilities, and the array of disability services and supports available to people with disabilities and their families; 2. Receive an overview of the history and progression of inclusion of people with disabilities into community life; 3. Hear of key legislative policies and court decisions that affect the lives of people with disabilities; 4. Get an overview of the disability rights and self-advocacy movements; 5. Learn guiding principles of service provision for people with disabilities, including valued social roles, normalization, integration and inclusion, person-centered approaches, collaborative systems, age-appropriate and functional skills development, and social networks; 6. Grasp the "big picture" perspective about the organization and function of service systems and national, state and local agencies designated to support people with disabilities and their families, as well as self-directed provider organizations; 7. Gain an overview of Minnesota systems, services, and policies that exist to support people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities within inclusive community, school, work, and recreation environments; 8. Get examples of promising practices in early intervention, school-age, transition, and adult services in Minnesota relevant to inclusive community participation; 9. Learn of issues of choice, self-advocacy, and self-determination through interactions with people who have disabilities; 10. Provide opportunity for interdisciplinary learning about disability service provision; 11. Grasp strengths, barriers and challenges for people with disabilities and their families from culturally diverse and oppressed communities and consider ways to support these communities as they wish to be supported; 12. Learn current critical issues, ethical questions, and future trends of the provision of services and supports that enable people with disabilities to fully live, learn, work, and play in communities of their choice.
- Grading:
- Uses standard UMN 100 point system for grades.
- Exam Format:
- No exams
- Class Format:
- in-person
- Workload:
- Weekly readings, with written/small group discussions on content as participation grade (15 pts), community-based interview short paper (15 pts) , civic engagement short paper on policy issue (20 pts), final paper or project (50 pts).
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50110/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 April 2024
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