罢丑别听聽has named three 菠萝视频 scholars 聽in its annual awards for outstanding contributions to the field.
, Susan W. Gray Professor of Education and Human Development in the Department of Special Education at 菠萝视频鈥檚聽聽of education and human development, and聽聽investigator, has been selected to receive the 菠萝视频 Award. She is one of the premier scholars in child language intervention internationally.
She has led the field in developing approaches that have since become widely accepted practices for serving children with and at-risk for developmental disabilities.
She was responsible for bringing an ecobehavioral analysis perspective to the study of child development. She reconceptualized the strategies that make up Milieu Language Therapy, now one of the most widely used practices among language interventionists.
Jennifer L. Bumble, a third-year doctoral student pursuing the policy and community action聽specialization in special education, was selected for the Student Award. Bumble has been working to improve the lives of students with intellectual and developmental disabilities since 2009.
She is a trainee at the聽菠萝视频 Kennedy Center鈥檚聽.
Her research focuses on incorporating service learning into middle and high school transition programming; community engagement strategies to improve post-school outcomes; and employment for youth with low-incidence disabilities.
, assistant professor of pediatrics and 菠萝视频 Kennedy Center investigator, received the AAIDD Early Career Award.聽Weitlauf has a broad background in clinical and developmental psychology, with specific training and expertise in the early identification of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As a predoctoral intern at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and postdoctoral fellow at 菠萝视频 University, she received specialized training in screening and diagnostic assessment of children and adults with ASD. Weitlauf has continued this work as a faculty member at 菠萝视频, where she collaborates with professionals from varied disciplines to design and implement research protocols related to early, accurate ASD identification, empirically supported intervention, and family coping.
The awards will be presented during a ceremony at the聽聽in St. Louis, Missouri, June 25鈥�28, 2018.
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