Autism Specialist - Online Graduate Certificate
Prepare to meet the needs of exceptional people.
The Online Autism Specialist Graduate Certificate is ideal for educators who want to increase their understanding of working with children affected with autism.
The Autism Specialist Certificate is designed for professionals with undergraduate degrees in education or related fields to work with individuals on the autism spectrum using advanced knowledge and skills specific to autism spectrum disorders and that are evidence based.
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Autism Specialist - Online Graduate Certificate
Certificate Overview
This program offers a high quality, practitioner-oriented approach that is committed to developing highly-qualified and effective professionals. Learn more about the fully online Autism Specialist Graduate Certificate.
The Autism Specialist Certificate is 15-credits.
- All credits count towards an MSE in Special Education through the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
- The program is fully online
- The online modules stress only evidenced-based interventions and courses go through an accreditation process called Quality Matters to ensure that the online access is as seamless as possible.
- Our department is accredited through both National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).
Courses for the Autism Specialist Certificate may include;
- SPECED 702 Reflective Practice and Action Research
- SPECED 704 Applied Field Action Research in Special Education
- SPECED 707 Foundations of Autism Spectrum Disorder
- SPECED 708 Methods for Teaching Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- SPECED 709/790 Advanced Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis
Admission Requirements
To ensure a high-quality graduate student group, all graduate students must have an undergraduate degree from a recognized institution and meet the criteria provided below.
To qualify for admission to a degree program in good standing, you must have:
- a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution with an overall undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.75 on a 4.00 scale, or
- at least a 2.90-grade point average in the last half of the undergraduate degree program, or
- at least 12 credits of graduate work completed on a regular grade basis at UW-Whitewater, or
- a master's or higher degree at a regionally accredited institution at the corresponding graduate level
In addition, the Online MSE in Special Education program requires that once admitted, students must apply to professional education in order to take advanced teaching methods courses.
Please fill out the request information form if you have questions prior to applying.
