Mon, 02/22/2021
LAWRENCE The University of Kansas has earned funding to launch a center dedicated to connecting researchers, educators and higher education faculty across the country to improve the use of technology in special education. The Center for Innovation, Design & Digital Learning has begun its mission to build collaborative networks, spur innovation and increase understanding of how technology can be harnessed to improve the education of students with disabilities.
The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs awarded the five-year, $2.5 million grant to KU’s School of Education & Human Sciences and Department of Special Education to establish the center, known as CIDDL. The center’s leaders are inviting higher education faculty, researchers, teacher educators and department directors to take part to determine needs, develop research opportunities, offer professional development and secure funding for innovation.
Though every community has faced challenges throughout this pandemic, it can be important to focus on the Special Education community and the struggles they have faced with virtual learning.
Two speech-language pathologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincolnâs Special Education and Communication Disorders department are starting a new support group for people who stutter.Â
Naomi Rodgers, assistant professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, said that along with lecturer Jessie Kohn, she is fostering a welcoming environment for young people who stutter. This new support group is part of a local chapter of the National Stuttering Organization.Â
Rodgers already facilitates a support group for adults in Lincoln and Omaha, but she said she recognized a growing need for community support for families whose children stutter.Â
âWe wanted to start a support group because stuttering happens in only about 1% of the population and [children] who stutter may have never met another individual who can relate,â Kohn said.Â
Principal investigator: Professor Woo Chi-keung, Department of Asian and Policy Studies
Co-investigators: Dr Henry So Chi-fuk, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology; external partners Dr Alice Shiu and Dr Liu Yun
2. The MAndarin Spoken Word-Picture IDentification Test in Noise – Adaptive (MAPID-A)
Principal investigator: Dr Kevin Yuen Chi-pun, Associate Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling
3. VocabGO – An Augmented Reality English Vocabulary Learning App
Principal investigator: Dr Song Yanjie, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology
Co-investigators: Dr Lai Yiu-chi, Associate Professor; Dr Alpha Ling Man-ho, Associate Professor; Mr Wu Kaiyi, Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology; external partners Dr Walter Ng Wing-shui and Dr Hiroaki Ogata
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