The Department of Special Education at Illinois State University is one of the largest and most respected special education programs in the country. Offering both graduate and undergraduate programs, you'll graduate with all the skills you need to be successful. Illinois State is one of only two schools in the nation with both a low vision and D/deaf and hard hearing program, and is one of only eight schools offering an undergraduate low vision program. As teacher candidates in the largest specialty program in the college, Specialists in Learning and Behavior are prepared to teach children with a range of special needs, such as learning, emotional, and intellectual disabilities, orthopedic impairments, autism spectrum disorders, multiple disabilities, and traumatic brain injuries. Specialists in this field are found at all grade levels and are qualified to assess the needs of all students and to design and modify lessons to meet those individual needs.