College of Health Science and Human Service : Centers & Affiliated Programs

Intensive Intervention Specialist Licensure/Special Education Certification

Severe Behaviors Graduate Program

The Severe Behavioral Spectrum (SBS)

Emotionally/Behaviorally Disordered (EBD) and Autistically Impaired (AI)

For Severe Behaviors Required Courses, click here.

This course of study includes evening academic offerings including graduate level educational, legal, medical, and biomedical research, reading and writing requirements specifically pertaining to serious emotional disturbance or behavioral disorders. This program also addresses toddlers, preschoolers and elementary children with pervasive developmental disorders, multisystem developmental disorders, autistic spectrum disorders or autism. Internships and field studies include College of Health and Human Services and College of Education clinics, public school settings, alternative and diversional settings, and hospital settings such as:

• The Perceptual Motor Development Clinic
  
• The NeuroDevelopmental Center, Children's Neurology Center
  
• The School/Services of Autistically Impaired Learners (SAIL);
  
• The MODEL Charter School for Children w/Autism and the Autism Academy
  
• The Toledo Children's Hospital, Child Life
  
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit
  
• The Toledo Hospital Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center
  
• Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division; Probation Services, Mediation Services, and Judicial Services
  
• Lucas County Juvenile Justice and Detention Center
  
• The University of Toledo Court Academy, Lucas County Court of Pleas, Juvenile Division

The Severe Behavioral Spectrum includes an internship specifically addressing children and youth in the Lucas County juvenile justice system. The University of Toledo Court Academy was founded in 1990. Court Academy Received the 1997 Ohio's BEST Practices Award and The 1997 World Class Teaching Award from the Ohio Department of Education.

This specialty area is available at the masters, specialists and doctoral levels. Interested graduate students should see the academic adviser for additional information, 419/530-2185.

Admission to Severe Behavioral Spectrum Graduate Programs

• A bachelors degree from an accredited university with a 3.5 minimum GPA (bachelors in education preferred);
  
• Master level applicants; must present a bachelors degree from an accredited university with a 3.5 minimum GPA. Applicants ith less a 3.5 GPA may be required to present a current GRE score.
  
• Doctoral level applicants; must present a masters degree from an acredited university with a 3.5 minimum GPA.
  All Doctoral level applicants must present a current GRE score of 1040.
  
• A GRE score of 1000 minimum for the verbal and quantitative sections combined
  
• An international student must present a TOFEL score of at least 550 if English is not the
  applicant's primary language.
  
• An interview with the program director is required.

For admission to the masters program with a specialization in severe behavioral spectrum, the following criteria for admissions must be met:

• A bachelors degree from an accredited university with a 3.5 minimum GPA (bachelors in education preferred);
  
• If the GPA is below 3.5 then the GRE; with at least 800 for the verbal and quantitative sections combined; and
  
• An interview with the program director is required.

The process for application review will be as follows:

• The application folder will be sent to the College of Education Graduate Office for review.
  
• If the review by the College of Education is favorable then the application folder will be sent to the College of Health and Human Services, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies.
  
• The application will be assessed by the director of the severe behavioral spectrum program, currently Dr. Marion Boss. 419-530-2185
  
• Following the decision by the College of Health and Human Services the application, with the decision, will be returned to the College of Education for final processing.

Dr. Marion Boss, Professor, Human Services, College of Health and Human Services, The University of Toledo, is a specialized professional reflecting unique researching, graduate-level teaching, and avid community serving in the areas of juvenile corrections and psycho-educational programming. Dr. Boss earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. Her graduate teaching includes advanced training and preparing of University students and in-service personnel to facilitate and instruct in-risk and at-risk children and adolescents with emotional and/or behavioral disorders (E/BD).

In addition, Dr. Boss addresses the special and psychological needs of youth identified as socially maladjusted (SM), conduct disordered (CD), and children and adolescents presenting with antisocial behaviors in public schools, alternative settings, juvenile delinquent diversional settings, psychiatric settings, and locked correctional settings. Correctional officers, probation and parole officers, law enforcement officers, medical personnel, and other persons involved with the habilitation of chronic and violent juvenile delinquents benefit from Dr. Boss' graduate program, the Severe Behavioral Spectrum.

Potentially violent children and youths driven by behavioral disorders, mental illness, serious emotional and/or physical trauma may be included within Dr. Boss' research and collaborative community service specialty areas. Dr. Boss is the founder and Director of Court Academy, a state-level award winning psycho-educational program for locked youth, Lucas County Juvenile Justice and Detention Center. With permission from the Sheriff of Lucas County, Court Academy also serves certified and bound-over juveniles housed in Lucas County Correctional Center, Toledo, Ohio.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Marion Boss, C.E.D., Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
College of Health and Human Services
The University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft, Toledo, Ohio 43606
Full Appointment, Graduate Faculty
The College of Health and Human Services
Specialties: Juvenile Justice, Socially Maladjusted Children and Youth, Juvenile Corrections; Corrections Education; Incarcerated Mentally Ill Children; Emotional/Behavioral Disorders--COURT ACADEMY; and Autistic Spectrum Disorders-SERVICES/SCHOOL FOR AUTISTICALLY IMPAIRED LEARNERS (SAIL);
UT-419/530-2185; UT-FAX: 419/530-2153
Marion.Boss@UToledo.edu