December 18, 2020
By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) has awarded a WSU College of Education faculty member with this year’s Student Research Award in Single Case Research Design Methods.
Holly Whittenburg is completing her first semester as an assistant professor of special education. The CEC’s Division for Research gives out awards for high-quality undergraduate or graduate student research studies. Whittenburg’s award was for her dissertation study while a student at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The CEC gives one award across each of the four major special education research methodologies: qualitative, single subject, quantitative, and mixed methods. Whittenburg’s recognition came in the single subject category for her dissertation which investigated the use of different trainings to improve the workplace conversational skills of transition-aged high school students with autism spectrum disorder.