Workshop: Engaging Persons with Disabilities - Research Efforts and Opportunities (Part 2)
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 27 Oct 2015 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm |
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| Location: | Pioneer Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | http://bit.ly/1hH8PeJ |
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| Phone: | 515-294-5357 |
| Channel: | Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching |
| Categories: | Training, development |
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Join us to learn about funding programs, research efforts and best practices in education and outreach from our panel of invited speakers.
Introduction and Overview
== Alexander Leonessa, Program Manager, General & Age Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE), National Science Foundation
== Ted Conway, Head, Biomedical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
Research, Outreach, and Workforce Development Panel
== Enhanced braille for the blind
Cris Schwartz, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University
== Sensorimotor rehabilitation/Human computer interaction
Cara Stepp, Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University
== Collaborative efforts
Anat Caspi, Director of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, University of Washington
== REU student recruitment and engagement
Christopher Andersen, Director of the Project to Support Grants for Research Outreach (Project GRO), Ohio State University
== Educational services
Sara Larkin, Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Upcoming sessions in the series:
Part 3: Best Practices in UDL early November.
This panel will be recorded, and available following the presentation.
This program is jointly sponsored by The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Information Technology Systems, Iowa NFS-EPSCoR, Student Disability Resources, and Office of University Counsel.