The Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology at the University of Missouri is recruiting for a highly qualified individual to help coordinate a new large-scale group randomized intervention trial to evaluate the efficacy of a teacher classroom management training program. For a full description of the position, which is at the Assistant or Associate Research Professor rank, please download the position announcement.
Monthly Archive for June, 2010
The Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA, US) announced a search for an individual to fill tenure-earning position in the area of learning disabilities at the assistant or associate professor level. Please see the accompanying PDF for details. For additional information, please contact
Jennifer Lindstrom, Ph.D.
Search Committee Chair
Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education
516 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
The Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA, US) announced a search for an individual to fill tenure earning position in the area of early childhood special education at the assistant or associate professor level. Please see the accompanying PDF for details. For additional information, please contact
Cynthia Vail, Ph.D.
Search Committee Chair
Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education
516 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Writing in the New York Times, Sharon Otterman reviews some of the challenges encountered in providing educational services to students with multiple and severe disabilities. In her extended article, Mr. Otterman uses the case of Donovan Forde, a 20-year-old youth who is nearing the end of mandated educational services in the US, to explain how teachers must weigh provision of academic experiences and functional living needs.
And yet, because of his cognitive disabilities brought on by a traumatic brain injury at nearly 6 months old, it is almost impossible to know what he comprehends and retains. After 15 years in the New York City school system, he is less reserved and more social, but otherwise has shown almost no progress, his mother said.
Once predominately isolated in institutions, severely disabled students have been guaranteed a free, appropriate public education like all children since the passage of federal legislation in 1975. In the years since, school districts across the country have struggled to find a balance between instruction in functional skills and academics while providing basic custodial care.
Read to Ms. Ottermn’s article. It would be a worthwhile one for discussion in courses about teaching students with disabilities.
The University of Kansas (KU) Department of Special Education has multiple VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (VAP) positions available during the 2010-2011 academic year for early-career individuals (i.e., doctoral program completion within the past three years) in early childhood special education, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and low- and high-incidence disabilities.
These early-career visiting faculty positions are designed to provide recent doctoral program graduates with a “post-doctoral” experience with an emphasis on teacher education knowledge and skills development and related research and writing with KU faculty, staff, and students. Positions may be renewed for a second year based on Department need and VAP performance.
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