Courses
Penn State's 12-credit Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Educating Individuals with Autism will provide you with advanced training in the area of autism spectrum disorders and help you earn continuing education credit in your profession, such as Pennsylvania Act 48 hours.
Course topics include:
- character and learning traits, classification systems, and special emphasis on selecting evidence-based interventions
- applied behavioral analysis, stimulus control, punishment, prompting, fading, generalization, and maintenance, as well as other issues affecting persons with autism and their families
- language development and communication strategies, pragmatics, communication systems, augmentative and alternative communication systems, social deficits in autism, and approaches for teaching skills
- screening, diagnosis, identifying skills in developmental domains, such as sensory, oral motor, and communication
Required Courses (12 credits)
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