The Department of Human Services and Counseling at St. John's University offers a graduate level program leading to initial state certificate valid for teaching students with disabilities at the childhood level (grades 1-6). This 33 credit program is designed to foster the development of skills, attitudes, and abilities needed to identify and remediate major learning and behavior disorders and to instruct individuals at the childhood level who manifest learning and behavioral problems ranging from mild to profound, regardless of etiology. Attention is paid to diagnosis, intervention, program planning, program evaluation, and research.