This non-interactive, asynchronous online course provides a review and update of school law issues, home-school-community assessment and intervention strategies, school social work practice skills as well as differential diagnosis and treatment of a variety of child and family-based special needs. Topics range from Positive Behavior Support (PBS) and Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plan (FBA/BIP), Crisis/Trauma Response Assessment and Interventions, Differential Diagnosis and Educational Treatment of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Updating Legal and Policy issues. You will be provided access to a secure course website that includes access to lecture materials, videos, and articles to enhance your learning. Successful acquisition of course materials will be demonstrated via online quizzes. CURRENTLY, NO CECH'S ARE BEING OFFERED FOR THIS COURSE. We have updated the content and the course is currently being piloted to ensure it meets the requirements of ASWB. If you are interested in being a pilot tester (CECHs may be awarded AFTER the pilot process is complete depending on results) stop and email swkce@msu.edu with “Refresher Course Pilot Tester” in the subject.
Completing this class will not lead to University credits, and no official grade is recorded by the MSU Registrar’s Office on a transcript.
If you have questions or concerns contact us at swkce@msu.edu or call 517-353-3060. For technology assistance contact: MSU Distance Learning Services: Local: (517) 355-2345 Toll Free: (800) 500-1554 (North America and Hawaii)
Recommended for LMSW intermediate and advanced skill levels.
Course will close on December 15, 2022.
Continuing Education Contact Hours are not available for this course
As a result of this course, participants will be prepared to:
1. Identify key aspects of educational laws and policies useful in advocating for oppressed students who are abused/ neglected, bullied, disabled, homeless, or sexually harassed.
2. Describe ongoing revisions to special education law (IDEA) and illustrate implications for school social work practice.
3. Perform the necessary steps to complete a mandated functional assessment of student behavior, and link these findings with a behavior intervention plan for a student exhibiting significant social, emotional and behavioral problems.
4. Articulate how to apply discipline and behavior management strategies to school-wide settings in order to avert potentially inappropriate, biased and discriminatory practices.
5. Apply research-based issues necessary for the assessment and potential special education diagnosis of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or emotional impairment.
6. Review and evaluate the evidence-base of various educational intervention strategies for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and/or emotional impairment and draw implications for school social work practice.
Instructor:
Kim Battjes, LMSW earned her bachelor’s degree in Sociology at Central Michigan University in 1992. She earned a master’s degree in social work from Michigan State University in 1999. She began her career in social work as a Families First worker, from 1992-1996 in Detroit, Washtenaw, and Livingston County. She also worked as a case manager for families who had a child with a disability. Once she earned her master’s degree, she worked as a school social worker in Shiawassee and Livingston Counties from 1999-2015. She has had the privilege of being a MSU field instructor, liaison, senior clinical instructor, and coordinator for temporary approval for school social work. She currently is the Coordinator of Chance at Childhood since November 2015 and represents MSU in the interuniversity committee for school social work approval.
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