Center researchers take center stage at world’s largest convention for special, gifted education
Several Vaughn Gross Center researchers traveled to Baltimore to deliver presentations or lead sessions at the Council for Exceptional Children’s annual convention, the largest such event dedicated to special and gifted education.
Among the featured events at the CEC Convention and Expo from April 6 to 9 were a full slate of workshops, more than 700 professional development sessions, networking events, and an exhibition of special education teaching materials.
Center participants and their topics include:
- Regina Blair: Using Strategies Instruction and Technology Tools to Enhance Written Language Performance.
- Brian Bryant: Making Instructional Adaptations Using Evidence-Based Reading Comprehension Strategies for Older Students.
- Christie Cavanaugh: Ten Successful Strategies to Enhance Literary Development for Preschoolers With Language Delays.
- Mandy Chu: Higher Education Collaborative.
- Carolyn Denton: Tier II Reading Intervention Programs in Public Schools: Researchers and Teachers Make it Work.
- Jade Hjelm: Implementing a 3-Tier Reading Model: Meeting Literacy Needs of Diverse Learners.
- Caroline Kethley: Multimedia Anchored Instruction Modules to Contextualize Preservice Teacher Education.
- Colleen Klein: Using Culturally Responsive Practices to Improve Reading Comprehension.
- Chris Lemons: Supporting Struggling Secondary Readers in Inclusive Settings.
- Shari Levy: Conducting Research in Classrooms for Students with EBD: Teachers and Researchers Speak.
- Sylvia Linan-Thompson:
- Effects of Reading Interventions with English Language Learners.
- Implementing a 3-Tier Reading Model: Meeting Literacy Needs of Diverse Learners.
- Juin Liu: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Parents and Their Participation in Special Education: A Literature Review.
- Diane Pedrotty Bryant:
- Leader of Strand A: Connecting Reading and Writing Instruction: Effective Strategies and Technology for Elementary and Secondary Students
- Making Instructional Adaptations Using Evidence-Based Reading Comprehension Strategies for Older Students.
- Erica Simon: Higher Education Collaborative.
- Elizabeth Swanson:
- Conducting Research in Classrooms for Students with EBD: Teachers and Researchers Speak.
- Tier II Reading Intervention Programs in Public Schools: Researchers and Teachers Make it Work.
- Jeanne Wanzek: Implementing a 3-Tier Reading Model: Meeting Literacy Needs of Diverse Learners.
The nonprofit CEC works to shape governmental policies, set professional standards, provide professional development, and advocate for underserved individuals with exceptionalities, according to its mission statement.