Licensure
As one of the program divisions of the Department of Education in the College of Social Sciences, the Special Education Programs prepares students as intervention specialist. This program prepares students as educators to provide serves to identified and at-risk special needs students and/or pre-school children in school districts and other educational settings. As an intervention specialist, the candidate will be a learning specialist, not a content area specialist. As a learning specialist, the candidate will have the knowledge and skills to focus on the learner and the learner's teacher/instructor. By assessing the strengths and need areas of this learning relationship, the intervention specialist (candidate) will have the knowledge, skills and disposition to guide, accommodate, modify and/or adapt those areas of the learning relationship process.
Upon completion of the licensure program, the candidate will have the knowledge, skills and dispositions to transfer their competencies in various settings: self-contained classrooms, resource rooms, collaborative and integrated classrooms, as itinerant teachers, and as specialist in hospitals and institutional settings.
Xavier's close relationship with local school districts ensures that your education will be based on best practices in the field of Special Education. Close relationship are developed between the special education faculty and their students.
Xavier University has four (4) graduate Intervention Specialist licensure programs: