Who We Are: 

UWG’s Department of Special Education includes a team of 10 of the most highly qualified special education faculty boasting a diverse range of expertise and experience. We offer rigorous, practice-oriented teacher preparation across undergraduate, master's, and specialist degree levels in a fully online format. For more information regarding our degree programs and faculty, please visit our program website. 

Our Areas of Expertise: 

We are proud to have a team of 10 of the most highly qualified special education faculty boasting a diverse range of expertise and experience in the areas of:

• early childhood special education
• inclusion
• special education leadership
• special education law and policy
• trauma-informed functional behavior assessment and intervention
• supervised behavior analytic fieldwork required for board certification
• learning disabilities
• program evaluation
• MTSS
• dyslexia
• autism
• general curriculum strategies
• adapted curriculum strategies
• teacher and family coaching
• interdisciplinary collaboration
• Universal Design for Learning
• instructional strategies
• assistive technology

The faculty within the Special Education Department can provide districts, programs, and individuals with high-quality professional development, mentoring, and coaching in these topic areas and more.

Practitioner Resources 

This range of expertise furthers the department’s commitment to excellence in practitioner preparation across all facets of the special education workforce. The faculty within the Special Education Department can provide districts,  programs, and individuals with high-quality professional development resources including, but not limited to: 

• First Year Teacher Induction Academy
• The Essentials of Special Education Training
• UWGLive Mixed Scenarios in Beginning Teacher Training and Leadership Development
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Dialogic Reading
• Special Education Family Education
• and much more

We can also provide consultation and coaching on topics related to special education leadership, IEP/IFSP development, behavior interventions, and Dyslexia. We are also open to discussing new and innovative ways our faculty can support the community through professional development, consultation, and coaching. We are dedicated to shaping the next generation of special educators and meeting the continuously evolving needs of the community and the field at large.