Program Description:
The Exceptionalities degree program is offered at the graduate level and provides a Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree for candidates desiring to gain knowledge and experience working with individuals with exceptionalities, but who do not seek to obtain a professional teaching license in the Intervention Specialist field. The program provides candidates insight on both high-incidence disabilities and low-incidence disabilities across multiple age ranges and how exceptionalities impact the process of learning.
Program Learning Outcomes
Prepare candidates on:
The impact of learners’ academic and social abilities, attitudes, interests, and values on instruction and career development.
The educational implications of characteristics of various exceptionalities.
The relationship of special education to the organization and function of educational agencies.
The issues in definition and identification of individuals with exceptional learning needs, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Educational implications of characteristics of various exceptionalities.
Characteristics and effects of the cultural and environmental milieu of the individual with exceptional learning needs and the family.
Similarities and differences of individuals with and without exceptional learning needs.
Similarities and differences among individuals with exceptional learning needs.
Differing ways of learning of individuals with exceptional learning needs, including those from culturally diverse backgrounds and strategies for addressing these differences.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
September 2025
College of Health, Education and Human Services
415 Allyn Hall,
DAYTON,
Ohio,
45435, United States
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, with a minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2.7 OR Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, with a cumulative undergraduate GPA between and including 2.6 - 2.69, but with a 3.0 or better for the last 60 semester hours earned toward the undergraduate degree.
If your native language is not English and you do not have a degree from a regionally accredited U.S. college or university, you must have a minimum score on one of the following exams:
A score of 79/120 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
A band 6 or higher through the International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
A score of 57 or higher on the Pearson PTE
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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