Special Education News

Sarah Powell joins the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Psychology as an associate editor.

Special Education alumna Dana Rathbun, M.Ed. ’18, received a classroom set-up grant for first-year teachers from the Texas Association of Certification Officers for the fall 2019 semester.

The grant will support the training of 28 new doctoral students over the next five years from a consortium of seven universities including the University of Texas at Austin.

Department of Special Education Introduces Undergraduate Course on Autism Taught in Spanish

DRTx is one of 57 prevention and advocacy organizations in the Unites States dedicated to the ongoing fight for the personal and civil rights of individuals with disabilities.

Sarah Powell is a Co-PI on a new project that hopes to improve math, music, and computational thinking in kindergarten through a series of field-based activities.

This year, the Department of Special Education is joined by Peng Peng.

Autism and Developmental Disabilities alumna Jennifer Hamrick interviewed by Fox 34 in about her involvement with the Mobile Outreach Clinic for Autism at the Burkhart Center for Autism and Research at Texas Tech.

Special Education Assistant Professor Jessica Toste and Associate Professor Nathan Clemens have received a $1.4 million grant to develop teacher expertise in data-based decision making to improve student reading success.

The Special Education associate professor is one of just 11 recipients from Texas and one of five from The University of Texas at Austin.

Beat the Summer slump with these book, audiobook, and podcast suggestions from faculty and staff within the College of Education.