Special Education—Mild Intervention

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Champion diverse abilities.

Special Education—Mild Intervention majors are prepared to teach, support, and advocate for students with disabilities in both inclusive and specialized classroom settings. With a full year of student teaching and built-in fieldwork, you’ll learn evidence-based strategies, disability advocacy, assistive technologies, and the legal and practical foundations of special education. You’ll graduate with meaningful real-world experience, licensed to teach P–12 learners with mild intervention needs.

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Program Curriculum

Curriculum

Sample courses in this program include:

ED242: Introduction to Disability
ED243: Introduction to Inclusive Teaching Methods
ED496: Special Education – Mild Intervention Teaching Methods
ED454: Assistive Technology and Accessibility
ED485: Disability Advocacy and Leadership in Special Education

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Kelli Esteves

Associate Dean and Professor
College of Education

Kelli J. Esteves, Ed.D., is a professor of special education and the associate dean for the College of Education at Butler University. She holds a B.A. in learning disabilities, an M.A. in teaching children with visual impairments, and an Ed.D. in…
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Erin Garriott

Senior Lecturer
College of Education

Dr. Erin Garriott has been teaching in the Indianapolis area her whole teaching career, starting at MSD Pike Township as a 3rd grade teacher in 1996. Her interest in inclusive classrooms took her on a path to study Disabilities and Special Education in…
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Theresa meyer

Senior Lecturer
College of Education

The Butler Advantage

Special Education—Mild Intervention majors learn evidence-based methods and strategies to support and advocate for students with disabilities. In this major, you’ll graduate with the skills to:

Create safe, equitable, inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments that support the development of emotional well-being, positive social interactions, and self-determination of learners with disabilities.

Develop a comprehensive approach to disability and non-disability focused assessments using multiple forms of informal and formal assessments that are reliable and minimize assessment bias, meaningfully engage learners in their own growth, monitor learning progress, and inform educational decisions.

Analyze typical and atypical growth and development to select, adapt, and use a variety of evidence-based instructional strategies and specialized curricula to individualize education for learners with disabilities, supporting active engagement in learning.

Use professional ethical principles, practice standards, and legal rights and protections of students with disabilities to inform and evaluate special education practice, engage in continual professional learning, and advocate for and advance the profession.

Real relationships. Real impact.

Butler’s College of Education works alongside organizations such as Special Olympics Indiana, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and community schools, because thoughtful, intentional relationship building and real-world experience is an integral part of the curriculum.

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