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Dr. Diane Bryant was the recipient of the 2017 Jeannette E. Fleischner Career Leadership Award by the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Division for Learning Disabilities. This award is one of the highest honors for researchers involved with CEC, and recognizes those who have advanced the field of learning disabilities through…

Mandy Rispoli The Department of Special Education is proud of graduate Dr. Mandy Rispoli, who recently received the inaugural Trailblazer Award for mid-career excellence and impact in research and scholarship from Purdue University. Dr. Rispoli is currently an associate professor of special education in the Department of Educational Studies at…

Chris Lemons The Department of Special Education is proud to share the achievements of Dr. Chris Lemons, now on faculty in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Lemons is a three-time Longhorn (MA 2000; BS Special Education 1999; BA Psychology 1996). Most recently, he graduated with a master’s…

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board recently published pass-rate data for approved course sequences for the Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification exam. 82% of first-time test takers who qualified for the exam by completing the Department of Special Education Autism and Developmental Disabilities BCBA course sequence passed the BCBA exam.

The new four-year project will focus on sixth and seventh grade students who receive daily intensive intervention from their mathematics teachers.

Department of Special Education professor and MCPER project director, Mathematics Institute, Diane Pedrotty Bryant recently served as the guest editor for a special series on intensifying interventions for students with persistent and severe mathematics difficulties in the journal TEACHING Exceptional Children. The special series includes articles authored by prominent mathematics researchers…

Stephanie Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio are deaf. They have lived the experience—as students and professionals—of working with accommodations and breaking down barriers.

Department of Special Education Assistant Professor Christian Doabler recently published new research. “Testing the Efficacy of a Tier 2 Mathematics Intervention” was published in the journal, Exceptional Children. The replication study differed from the initial randomized controlled trial (Clarke et al., 2016) on three critical elements: geographical region,…