Four new grants awarded this fall from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) make for five fully-funded doctoral training programs that the Special Education department is currently recruiting students to fill for the Fall 2020 semester:
- Project CO-LEAD (Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky): This is a consortium between the University of Oregon, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University. The project focuses on topics related to autism, MTSS, implementation science, and culturally responsive interventions.
- Project Family IMPACT (Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky; Meghan Burke): This project focuses on the experiences that families of individuals with disabilities face across the lifespan, specific to individualization, mobility, poverty, adversity, culture, and trauma.
- Project SCORE (Stacy Dymond): An interdisciplinary doctoral program within special education and rehabilitation counseling, focused on improving post-school competitive, integrated employment outcomes for students with severe disabilities.
- Training Consortia focused on Infants and Young Children with High-intensity Needs Due to Significant Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Michaelene Ostrosky): Ten universities will prepare PhD students with a focus on individuals who have high intensity needs which limit their abilities across all developmental domains, most specifically in social competence and communication.
- Project STePS (Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky; Catherine Corr; Lisa Monda-Amaya): This project focuses on topics related to research methodologies, law and policy, supporting individuals wiht disabilities and families from culturally, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds, and technology for instruction.
Please help spread the word! Go to education.illinois.edu/sped/funding-opportunties to learn more and to apply.
