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Special Education and Plan II Senior Recognized as a Distinguished Graduate
Apr. 24, 2020
Gabriela Coelho, a senior in the All-Level Special Education program in the College of Education and the Plan II Honors Program in the College of Liberal Arts, has been named a 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Graduate in the College of Liberal Arts. Coelho, a Charles Butt Scholar in the College…
Review of Education Research Features article by Toste and Peng
Apr. 08, 2020
The Department of Special Education’s Jessica Toste, assistant professor, and Peng Peng, assistant professor, have had an article accepted in Review of Education Research. The article is titled, “A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relations Between Motivation and Reading Achievement for K-12 Students.” Co-authors are Lisa Didion, Marissa J.
Lisa Sigafoos: Adults With Disabilities Have Been Overlooked During COVID-19
Apr. 03, 2020
Three Special Education Doctoral Students Accepted to Selective Research Seminar
Feb. 17, 2020
Three Ph.D. students in Learning Disabilities and Behavioral Disorders Program in the Department of Special Education have been selected to join the 12th cohort of the Council for Exceptional Children‘s Division for Research Doctoral Student Scholars: Marissa Filderman, Meijia Liu, and Soyoung Park. The students…
There’s No Place Like Home
Jan. 31, 2020
Everyday interventions show promise for young children with autism.
Sarah Powell Selected as Associate Editor of Journal of Educational Psychology
Dec. 02, 2019
Sarah Powell joins the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Psychology as an associate editor.
Introducing the Dean's Promising Scholars
Nov. 26, 2019
From left to right: Sarah Chong, Alejandro “A.J.” Sanchez, Leslie Aguilera, and Manuel “Manny” Sandoval, four of the inaugural cohort of Dean’s Promising Scholars The college is pleased to announce the launch of the Dean’s Promising Scholars, the college’s first four-year, full-tuition scholarship program for undergraduate students who show tremendous…
Special Education Alumna Awarded Classroom Set-Up Grant
Nov. 20, 2019
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.
Meadows Center Receives a $6.4 Million Grant to Extend National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention
Nov. 20, 2019
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.
La Introducción de un Nuevo Curso de Autismo en Español
Oct. 31, 2019
Department of Special Education Introduces Undergraduate Course on Autism Taught in Spanish

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