Minot State University

Program Description:

The Education of the Deaf program includes both an undergraduate and a graduate degree program in the education of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Students in the undergraduate degree program earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Education (B.S.E.) with a double major in Education of the deaf (k-8) and Elementary Education (1-8). The program meets all of the education requirements for Professional Level Certification by the Council on Education of the Deaf (CED), the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction Special Credential for Teachers of Children with Hearing Impairments, and certification in both regular education and education of the deaf in virtually all other states.

Students in the graduate program earn a Masters degree in Education of the Deaf. The program is designed to provide trained teachers of the deaf with the evaluation skills necessary to allow them to function effectively as clinical psycho educational diagnosticians and educational programmers for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. This level of professional preparation is critical in the rural states of the Midwest and west. The student with a bachelor's degree in education of deaf and hard of hearing children and/or certification equivalent other CED standards for provisional certification may be admitted into the graduate program.

Program Goals and Objectives

1. To ensure that students have a broad educational background in order to function as an informed teacher in society.
2. To promote a philosophy of education based on the individual needs of children.
3. To provide students with skills to aid children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their parents in dealing with the social-emotional problems related to hearing loss.
4. To provide students training in a variety of skills and methods needed to educate children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
5. To train teachers to function effectively in a variety of educational settings such as self-contained and resource classrooms in residential and mainstream programs.
6. To train students to function effectively in a variety of professional roles, including consultants, classroom teachers, and resource and itinerant teachers for mainstreamed children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their teachers.
7. To train students to teach using Total Communication and Auditory-Oral methodologies depending on the individual needs and abilities of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
8. To provide students with ability to teach speech and develop the spoken language of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
9. To provide the students the ability to develop listening skills and maximize the residual hearing of individual children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
10. To train students in methods of teaching the academic subjects including developing and modifying curricula for children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
11. To provide the students skills in teaching reading skills through oral or manual methods to children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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Up loaded by: Melissa Close/Kent State University/Deaf Education Major