What Can You Do With A Major In Special Education? 

Special Education teachers help students learn and apply concepts in a variety of subjects, except they work with individuals with disabilities, so they must plan according to the needs of each individual.� Teachers work in public, private, or parochial institutions.� They must also be open to a diversity of people for they work with students differentiating in age, sex, and race, along with different ethical and religious backgrounds.� Along with educating the students, the teacher is also responsible for planning, evaluating, and assigning lessons; preparing, administering, and grading tests; listening to oral presentations; and maintaining classroom discipline.� They also must prepare the student in the behavioral aspect, building comfort in different situation for life after graduation.

Some Related Career Titles 

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Beginning Salary Range:

$34,000 with a bachelor's degree; $38,000 with a master's degree- Based on information from the National Association of Colleges and Employers- Spring 2008

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Links To Professional Associations 

Professional Associations are important to explore because many offer student memberships and can give you access to other professionals and their experiences, research, convention or workshop opportunities, professional development and most importantly job databases 

·  Parent Pals.Com  

·  Internet Special Education Resources  

·  Special Education Network  

·  Special Education Resources  

·  Adapted Physical Education Teacher- American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

·  Audiologist-American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

·  Occupational Therapist-American Occupational Therapy Association

·  Physical Therapist-American Physical Therapy Association

·  Recreational Therapist-American therapeutic Recreation Association

·  Rehabilitation Counselor-American Rehabilitation Counseling Association

·  School Counselor-American School Counselig Association

·  School Social Worker-National Association of Social Workers

·  Speech-Language Pathologist-American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

·  OSERS Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services 

Job Search Information  

Teacher's Employment Network  

Nemnet 

School-Jobs 

National Educators Employment Review  

GreatTeacher.net 

Graduate Schools  

Local programs 

University of Central Florida 

University of South Florida  

Florida International University 

Florida Atlantic University  

Florida Gulf Coast University 

Link To UNF Academic program 

The Exceptional Student and Deaf Education Department at the University of North Florida offers tracks in
Master of Education in Special Education (M. Ed.) 

• Concentration:Exceptional Student Education  
• Concentration: Deaf Education  
• Concentration: Disability Services  
• Concentration: American Sign Language/English Interpreting  
• Concentration: Applied Behavior Analysis  
• Concentration: Autism 

Bachelor of Arts in Education (B.A.E)   

• Concentration: Exceptional Student Education  
• Concentration: Deaf Studies   

Bachelor of Science 

• ASL/English Interpreting 

College of Education and Human Services Job Search Internet Links