2008 Research

Research

2008-11

Disability in the 21st Century Challenging Inclusion in Schools—a Professional Learning Community with Honeyoe Falls-Lima Central Schools to introduce key disability studies paradigm for staff, teachers, and administrators. Project components included critical dialogs; disability literacy instructional units in a blended inclusive grade three classroom and an instructional unit in two sixth grade classrooms.

UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). A Forum organized by Birmingham University with international scholars from interdisciplinary fields including education, social work, social policy, political science and international studies. Invitedcore member. September 2011-present.

2006-08

Enhancing Higher Education for All. 3-year funded project to U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education Program. (Demonstration Program). PI, David T. Mitchell, Temple University Institute on Disabilities, Philadelphia, PA. (PR# 333A080018). [External evaluator]. 2006-08.

2000-2003

Ideology and the Politics of Inclusion--an International Colloquium on Inclusive Education. Spencer Foundation, Research Conference Award. 1999-2000.

Summer Institute on Disability Studies, Fellowship Award. National Endowment for the Humanities. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. 2000.

University of Rochester Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies: Disability Studies Cluster. University of Rochester. 2001.

A Collaborative Inquiry on Understanding Disability in Secondary and Post-Secondary Settings.  National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Focus Grant. 2000-2001.

EIntegrating Disability Studies into Secondary Education Curricula. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers.  Co-director with David T, Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, University of Illinois, Chicago. 2003.