What can you do with this degree?
This AAQEP Accredited degree will prepare you to teach students Kindergarten to 12th grade with both high and low incidence disabilities. This may include students with specific learning disabilities, other health impairments, emotional disturbances, intellectual disabilities, autism, or multiple disabilities.
You'll have an opportunity to work within diverse elementary, middle, and high school settings in both urban and rural communities.
The Special Education program is approved by the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board.
Delivery Method: On-campus
Credit Hours: 120
Teacher certification information
Why Study With Us?
You'll be immersed in field experiences from the start, gaining over 200 hours of field experience in classroom observations that occur across disability categories and grade levels, in addition to a full semester of student teaching.
Advising for Current Students
Current Special Education majors who have not been admitted to the Teacher Education Program are required to meet with a professional advisor in the Taylor Education Building Room 151 each semester prior to registration. Students are assigned to an advisor based on the first letter of their last name.
- Ryana Conway (students with last names A-G)
- Maureen Holloway (students with last names H-O)
- Jason Horger (students with last names P-Z)