Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify the causes and describe the characteristics of atypical children and adolescents including the following conditions: learning disabilities, mentally challenged, people with Down Syndrome, autism, visual impairments, behavioral disorders, and visual impairments; explain how horticultural therapy can be utilized to meet educational, social, physical, emotional, vocational and recreational goals; identify learning styles and design horticultural therapy activities that can develop perceptual modalities-visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic; design creative horticultural therapy programming for youth who are low functioning or difficult to motivate; develop goals and objectives for various age groups and developmental levels; design a unit plan on a horticultural theme; write a lesson plan for a horticultural therapy activity; examine the use of horticultural therapy in pediatric settings; define the role of the horticultural therapist as an interdisciplinary team member in programs for children; and perform a literature review of scientific, refereed journal articles concerning horticultural therapy for youth.