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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PY 4020 - Psychology of Disabilities

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This course provides a survey of the range of physical, developmental, psychological, and sensory disabilities from a biopsychosocial perspective. The focus is on children, adolescents, and young adults and examines evidence-based information about disabilities including epidemiology, etiology, diagnoses, risk factors, prevention, treatment, and issues of support. Students will synthesize, evaluate, and apply research from empirical journal articles on disabilities in discussions and written assignments. Not for credit if student has previously taken PYED 3020. 

Prerequisite: PY 1000  or PY 1100 , and sophomore standing.
Core Curriculum: (IQL, IF)