(15 credits)
Licensed teachers with Elementary, Secondary, or K-12 endorsements are eligible to acquire an LBS1 endorsement upon completion of 18 hours of LBS1 course work and a passing score on the Illinois LBS1 Content Area Exam (155). The endorsement is for grades K-12.
Required Courses (15 credits)
| SPED 550 | Diagnostic Assessment of Students with Disabilities | 3 |
| SPED 557 | Math Mthds: Students w/ Disabilities | 3 |
| EDRD 502 | Literacy Methods and Beginning Reading: Primary | 3 |
| OR | |
| SPED 551 | Adolescent Lit: Students w/ Disabilities | 3 |
| SPED 552 | Methods of Social and Emotional Learning | 3 |
| SPED 540 | Foun SPED: Overview Exceptional Children | 3 |