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Posted on our Bulletin Board is a listing of scholarship sources and grants to help support Master's and doctoral level students through personnel preparation, leadership, research and demonstration projects. Please note contact information to obtain more information on these potential support opportunities.
Scholarship Opportunities
Student Award and Application Opportunities
Posted here are two documents provided to better inform students of University Student Award Opportunities and Student Application Opportunities. The first document lists opportunities for which students can be nominated; the second document lists fellowship opportunities for which students apply. The listings in each document are ordered by time of year when the opportunity is typically announced. The information contained in these documents are intended to serve as a guide. Please note the contact information and website address given in case deadline dates have changed since this posting.
Current and potential students should also explore our Financial Support page on our Department Web site to learn of other funding sources.
Transition Certificate Program
For information about scholarships for the KU Transition Certificate Program, please visit the Transition Coalition website or contact Dr. Mary Morningstar(mmorningstar@ku.edu).
Grant Awards
Department of Special Education
Please link to the special education faculty member associated with the grant to obtain additional information.
Investigator: Don Deshler
Project Title: National Technical Assistance and Dissemination Center for Response to Intervention. American Institutes for Research - U.S. DOE, OSEP.
Grant Period: 2007-2012. $2,500,000.
The scope of this project involves collaborating with AIR on identifying state technical assistance needs as they relate to response to intervention and helping states link to relevant, RTI Center-sponsored assistance. KU-CRL's role includes preparing training manuals; presenting institutes conferences, workshops, and forums; and hosting state and local district staff who are interested in visiting public school sites where RTI practices have been implemented.
Project Title: Studies to determine the effectiveness of extended learning opportunities tutoring programs for at-risk adolescents. Wal-Mart Foundation.
Grant Period: 2007-2009. $700,000.
Investigators: Don Deshler, Keith Lenz
Project Title: A Study of District-Wide Change and Scalability Structures. Virginia Department of Education, USDOE-OSEP
Grant Period: 2007-2012. $5,900,000.
This project expands and builds upon the work completed during the first three years of the Virginia Department of Education's State Improvement Grant. The focus is on improving literacy outcomes for adolescents with disabilities using the evidence-based interventions of the Strategic Instruction Model and implemented schoolwide through the Content Literacy Continuum.
Project Title: A Doctoral Program for Developing Leaders to Ensure the Academic Success of Students with Disabilities in Secondary Schools. Office of Special Education Programs.
Grant Period: 2007-2011. $800,000.
This program is designed to develop leadership personnel in fields related to the education of students with high-incidence disabilities and other students withrndisabilities in grades 6-12 who can successfully respond to the demands in rigorous general education environments. The purpose of the project is to prepare leadership personnel to acquire the necessary competencies to conduct rigorous research resulting in validated instructional procedures for students with disabilities, to develop instructional products that are grounded in principles of universal design, to lead school reform and system change efforts tornimprove the successful implementation of IDEA and NCLB on behalf of students with disabilities, and to prepare school personnel to successfully teach students with disabilities so they can succeed in general education curricula and pass state assessments. This project is a collaboration of KU-CRL and the Department of Special Education.
Investigators: Charlie Greenwood, Judy Carta
Project Title: Center for Response to Intervention in Early Childhood (CRTIEC). National Center for Special Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
Grant Period: 2008-2013.
Funded - Pending Negotiation.
The aim of this research is to develop and validate tier 2 and tier 3 language and early literacy interventions for preschoolers who are not responsive to the tier 1 curriculum. Other aims include developing new and improving existing progress monitoring measures, provide national leadership, and disseminate new knowledge.
Project Title: Center on Early Childhood Outcomes for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschools with Disabilities. Juniper Gardens Children's Project subcontract to SRI International, Kathy Hebbeler, PI. Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education.
Grant Period: 2004-2009. $580,000.
Investigator: Charlie Greenwood
Making Ecobehavioral Assessment Tools Web-Based in Support of Response to Intervention. U. S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
Grant Period: 2007-2009. $394,894.
The purpose of this OSEP project is to develop and refine an ecobehavioral technological approach in a Response to Intervention (RTI) conceptual framework. General and special educators, school psychologists, and service providers will have supports for (a) accountability: data entry, management, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of intervention results, (b) implementation: training and certification assessors' qualified to administer the measures, (c) technical assistance: tracking data, interventions, and outcomes, support use, and communication using state of the art web-based authoring software, multimedia design, and development guided by RTI models and universal designs.
Project Title: Effects of Progress Monitoring Supported by National Web-based Technology on the Intervention Results of Infants and Toddlers with/without Disabilities Ages. OSEP, USDE.
Grant Period: 2006-2009.
Investigators: Eva Horn, Judy Carta, Barbara Thompson
Project Title: University of Kansas Teacher Educators for Early Childhood Special Education Leadership Personnel Preparation Project (KU-TEECH).
Grant Period: 2007-2011. $800,000.
This personnel preparation grant helps prepare leadership personnel in early childhood special education/early childhood, particularly focusing on leadership in teacher education. This grant will help prepare students, including those from traditionally under-represented groups, with the knowledge and skills necessary to become highly effective ECSE/ECE teacher educators. A core of leadership coursework, grounded in the evidence base of effective practice in early childhood special education, teacher education, and policy leadership, will help program graduates fill in key ECSE/ECE teacher education vacancies across the United States.
Investigator: Ed Meyen
Project Title: Modifying iPod Technology to Meet Instructional Needs of Adult Learners. University of Kansas School of Education.
Grant Period: 2007-2008. $4,000.
Project Title: Blending Assessment with Instruction Program (BAIP) in Science. Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas.
Grant Period: 2007-2008
Investigators: Ed Meyen, Don Deshler
Preparing Students with Learning Disabilities for Careers in Math and Science by Achieving Curriculum Standards. National Science Foundation.
Grant Period: 2006-2009.
$299,867.
The objectives of this project are to reduce the achievement gap between students with learning disabilities and their non-disabled peers in math; to enhance math preparation of individuals with LD to enter postsecondary institutions to pursue programs and degrees in math, science, engineering, and technology; and to disseminate lessons and tutorials aligned with curriculum standards that have been validated to improve the achievement of students with LD. This project builds on the Blending Assessment with Instruction Program (BAIP).
Investigator: Mary Morningstar
Project Title: Project STELLAR. Missouri Parents Act, Kansas City, MO.
Grant Period: 2007-2012. $242,405.
This project addresses the need for increased involvement of families during transition planning and across school and community systems. Project STELLAR provides training and information to enable individuals with disabilities and their families (including parents, adult siblings, and extended family members, as well as guardians and advocates) to participate more effectively with professionals from educational, vocational, independent living and rehabilitation systems. Through a collaborative partnership between Missouri Parents ACT (M-PACT) and the Transition Coalition, this project will provide information, training and technical assistance to individuals with disabilities, parents, family members, guardians, advocates and others.
Project Title: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Grant Period: 2007-2008. $131,333.
The KU Transition Coalition will provide services for professional development and technical assistance to Missouri Regional Professional Development Center (RPDC) consultants and school districts. These services include regional and district self-assessment of transition needs, development and facilitation of an online communities of practice for the RPDC consultants to support and provide ongoing technical assistant, as well as a statewide COP for training and resource sharing. The Transition Coalition will be organizing online presentations from national experts and supporting an "Ask the Experts" forum via the statewide COP. In addition, the Transition Coalition will be providing online training and online short courses through the KU Special Education Department and KU Continuing Education to the RPDC consultants.
Project Title: Arizona Community Transition Team Training and Technical Assistance. Arizona Department of Education.
Grant Period: 2007-2008. $59,989.
Project Title: Transitional Training and Technical Assistance. Henrico County Public Schools, Richmond, VA.
Grant Period: 2007-2008. $15,878.
Investigator: Pattie Noonan
Project Title: Missouri State Personnel Development Grant Evaluation. Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Grant Period: 2007-2008. A total of $130,000.
This project will help the State of Missouri implement a statewide system of evaluation of activities related to the 2007-2012 Missouri State Personnel Development Grant. The project proposes to specifically develop a comprehensive system of evaluation for these newly authorized grant funds.
Investigator: Wayne Sailor
Project Title: The University of Kansas Response to Intervention (RtI) Leadership Preparation Program: Improving School Outcomes for Students with Significant Disabilities in Urban Settings. Office of Special Education Programs, Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities.
Grant Period: 2008-2012. $800,000.
This University of Kansas Beach Center on Disability and University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning collaborative project will: (a) recruit five doctoral students with diverse backgrounds and talents, including those with disabilities; (b) provide a doctoral leadership program focused on specialized curricula, extensive urban field experiences, ongoing research application grounded in RtI pedagogy and science; and (c) ensure fidelity of core doctoral training components thorough formative and summative evaluation procedures. Upon completion of this comprehensive professional effort, the five students upon receiving their Doctorate of Philosophy in Special Education will emerge as national leaders, prepared specifically to secure positions that will enable them to prepare highly qualified teachers skilled in RtI applications in urban-core, multicultural schools and to conduct rigorous high quality research directed to applications of RtI methods to meet the needs of children with disabilities.
Project Title: Tertiary Intervention: The K-I Center. Office of Special Education Programs - U.S. Department of Education.
Grant Period: 2007-2010. $1,597,794.
This demonstration project funded by OSEP establishes a model center that works with schools in Kansas and Illinois to show a) how and when resources and systems are organized to ensure the success of all students in accordance with a response to intervention (RtI) logic model, and b) how individual supports and interventions for students with complex needs can be more effectively/efficiently provided. Specifically, the Center proposes to strategically apply validated approaches using a problem-solving rubric that fully encompasses and integrates school-wide positive behavior support and wraparound, a school mental health approach developed in Illinois and replicated widely in other states. Center resources will be strategically applied to ensure implementation of tertiary systems in demonstration sites already implementing school-wide approaches but struggling with the shift from categorical approaches into RtI logic driven integrated systems.
Investigator: Richard Simpson
Project Title: Master’s Degree Training Program for Personnel Preparing for Careers with Children and Youth with Autism-Related Disorders
Grant Period: 2005-2009. $800,000.
This Office of Special Education Program master’s degree program is supports professionals preparing for careers as teachers and related service professionals with children and youth with autism spectrum disorders.
Project Title: Preparation of Leadership Personnel: Doctoral Training Program for Personnel Preparing for Careers with Children and Youth with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders and Autism-Related Disorders. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Division of Personnel Preparation.
Grant Period: 2005-2009. $800,000.
This program addresses leadership shortages within E/BD and ASD education by combining general doctoral training in special education with specialty work in these areas. The grant develops teacher educators, researchers, and supervisors with consultation, personnel training, and research experiences in urban and suburban public schools within linguistically and culturally diverse communities.
Investigator: Sean Smith
Project Title: Personnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities - Focus Area B: Training personnel to serve school age children with low-incidence disabilities: A Masters Training Program with an emphasis in assistive/instructional technology. US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
Grant Period: 2007-2012. $1,000,000.
This Master’s training grant will fully endorse at least 36 teachers in the State of Kansas Functional Area endorsement (students with low incidence disabilities) who also will develop expertise in assistive and instructional technology (A/IT) and be prepared to provide classroom support. Skills developed will allow teachers to: (a) Conduct research that results in the identification and validation of A/IT in the lives of students with LID in special and general education classrooms; (b) Implement evidence-based practices that address the instructional, behavioral, and social/emotional needs of students with disabilities, especially in the use of A/IT to promote meaningful access to the general education curriculum; (c) Develop partnerships and sustainable relationships with software/hardware manufacturers through the design, development, and implementation of classroom-based Action Research to better understand what constitutes effective technology application and what is necessary for successful implementation; (d) Promote change to facilitate the adoption and sustained use of research-based A/IT pedagogy in classrooms; and (e) Model for other teachers, parents, and related educational personnel to support use and effective integration of A/IT interventions to enhance the lives of students with LID.
Project Title: Animated Visual Supports for Social Skills (AViSSS). Steppingstones of technology innovation for students with disabilities, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
Grant Period: 2007-2008. $400,000.
For this OSEP Steppingstones Technology Development project, investigators will apply virtual reality (VR) technology in the form of photo-realistic, animated computer simulations to augment social skills interventions for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The project's workscope involves collaboration with a panel of ASD experts in writing and validating 10 social narrative "scenarios," which are then imported into programmed finite machine state (FMS) packages. FMS packages allow end-users to select a social predicament, witness it unfolding, and interact with it. Upon completion of the scenarios, the investigators will beta test the prototype using expert-appraisal procedures with the intent of rapid-prototyping for eventual marketing and dissemination during an eventual Phase II Steppingstones follow-up grant.
Investigators: Barbara Thompson, Eva Horn
Project Title: Preparing Early Childhood Education to serve all Young Children. Preparation of masters level personnel, U.S. Department of Education, Division of Personnel Preparation.
Grant Period: 2007-2011. $800,000.
This personnel preparation project (HUE) is responsive to the call for a new early childhood professional. Project HUE is directed toward the preparation of personnel for the Kansas Early Childhood Unified (Birth through Gr. 3) license and thus impacts the critical need for personnel who have competencies necessary to effectively serve all young children, including infants, toddlers and preschoolers with disabilities (birth through age 5) and their families, in natural environments and inclusive general early childhood programs. Addressing the major EC-related licensure changes in Kansas, this project is directed to providing and refining: (a) a newly approved teacher education program in which individuals can acquire the competencies needed to obtain a new Kansas EC-Unified (Birth Gr.3) license and (b) a program leading to a Masters of Science in Education in the program area of early childhood special education in which individuals can acquire advanced EI/ECSE competencies.
Investigator: Ann Turnbull
Project Title: National Early Childhood Training Enhancement Center. Office of Special Education Programs.
Grant Period: 2008-2013. $197,593.
As a sub-contract from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, this project, known as Project CONNECT, has the purpose of providing resources, training, and technical assistance to higher education faculty and other professional development specialists to foster inclusive early childhood services for young children with disabilities. CONNECT will work with both special education and general early childhood professional development specialists by developing nine curricular modules related to quality early childhood education for young children with special needs (birth-5 years). The Beach Center's sub-contract with Project CONNECT is to provide the family perspective throughout all nine modules and in particular in development of a module on providing family supports and services.
Investigators: Ann Turnbull, Wayne Sailor, Rud Turnbull, Mike Wehmeyer
Project: Leadership and Outcomes in Education and Family Policy for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities. U.S. Department of Education, OSERS, OSEP Special Education Personnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program.
Grant Period: 2006-2010, $800,000.
This USDOE four-year leadership training grant focuses on preparing five national leaders to make substantial and sustainable improvements in long-term outcomes for students with significant cognitive disabilities and their families. Students will have a special emphasis in assessment quality, instructional quality, family support, and policy. Students will enroll in School of Education and Department of Special Education core courses, as well as complete a research minor. They will also engage in leadership practica associated with strategic roles at local, state, and national levels. To learn more, link to the Beach Center's Graduate Studies site – http://www.beachcenter.org/take_action/enroll_in_graduate_studies/default.aspx
Investigators: Ann Turnbull, Rud Turnbull
Project: Leadership and Family-Professional Partnership Enhancement. U.S. Department of Education, OSERS, OSEP Special Education Personnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program.
Grant Period: 2008-2012. $800,000.
With a focus on preparing students with a specialization in family-professional partnerships, this USDOE four-year leadership training project will prepare five national leaders. Students will have a special emphasis in family theory and research, family supports and services, family policy, and technology-based knowledge mobilization. In addition to School of Education and Department of Special Education core courses, students will complete a minor in research and will actively participate in technology-based learning including online communities of practice and a wide variety of innovative Web 2.0 technologies.
Investigators: Rud Turnbull, Ann Turnbull
Project Title: Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Policies Affecting Families of Children with Disabilities. National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitative Research.
Grant Period: 2003-2008. $3,749,737.
This five-year research, training, and dissemination project focuses on a comprehensive study of the impact of two policies on families. The first policy is the individual/family control of Medicaid funding, and the second policy is Part C of IDEA in terms of the provision of family supports and services. Research is occurring at federal, state, and local levels in Kansas and North Carolina to particularly focus on the outcomes of family quality of life and family community integration. In addition to the research, extensive effort is being invested in development, dissemination, training, and technical assistance.
Investigators: Chriss Walther-Thomas, Earle Knowlton, Deb Griswold
Project Title: Leadership in the Teacher Education Core (LTEC)
Grant Period: 2007-2010. $800,000.
This Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) grant will produce doctoral level (Ph.D.) teacher educators who can immediately apply evidence-based best practices in teacher education to improve university-based special education personnel preparation. Project participants will gain expert knowledge and skills in role functions pertinent to higher education teacher preparation: college teaching and research in teacher education; advisement, supervision and coaching of teachers; and public service via professional development. The project includes critical learning experiences that integrate the following four tools in each of these roles: (1) instructional and telecommunications technology; (2) exposure to and competence regarding cultural and linguistic diversity; (3) multiple approaches to research, development, and evaluation; and (4) development and nurturance of a collaborative learning community including higher education and public school faculty, teacher education candidates, and the doctoral student participants.
Investigator: Mike Wehmeyer
Project Title: Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities: Core grant. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Developmental Disabilities.
Grant Period: 2007-2012. $2,500,000.
This award funds the infrastructure for the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities.
Project Title: Determining the Efficacy of the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction to Improve Secondary and Transition Outcomes for Students with Cognitive Disabilities. U.S. Department of Education.
Grant Period: 2007-2009. $900,490.
This USDE grant focuses on assessing self-determination and its affects on academic and transition-related outcomes in the high school setting. Differences between control and treatment participants will be analyzed, as well as the patterns of change and growth among access, progress, and self-determination indicators.
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