Guest Speaker: Marshall Raskind, Ph.D., Director of Research and Special Projects at the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.

Handwriting acquisition for young children: Using the write direction.
Presenter: Andrew Gilbert, OTR/L

Project WRITE! Benefits of developmental writing instruction for bilingual Head Start children.
Presenter: Carola Matera

Emerging thematic issues in reading comprehension assessments for students with disabilities.
Presenter: Lisa Sullivan

Developing a measure of teacher self-perceptions of reading content and pedagogy related to letter-sound correspondence.
Presenter: Vicki Benson

Autism and reading comprehension: Creating a connection that will facilitate intervention and instruction.
Presenter: Harriet Levine, MA

Topic 2: Autism, Mental Retardation, and other Developmental Disabilities

Syndrome specificity and mother-child interactions: Examining positive and negative parenting across multiple contexts and time.
Presenter: Araksia Kaladjian

Identification of autism specific impairments during brief parent-child interactions: Implications for community based screening projects.
Presenters: Nicolette Nefdt, M.A. & Sharon Elmensdorp, M.A.

Impact on siblings across early childhood: Differences among children with and without mental retardation.
Presenter: Cameron L. Neece

Positive adaptation in Latino families of children with developmental disabilities.
Presenter: Sandra I. Aldana, MPH

3:00-3:25
English or Spanish? The efficacy of assessing Latino/a children in Spanish for risk of reading disabilities.
Presenter: Dianna Townsend

3:25-3:50
The effects of accommodations on standardized test scores in mathematics for students with special needs and English language learners.
Presenter: Anne K.F. Jones, Ed. D.

3:50-4:15
Vision skills development in special education classes.
Presenter: Lisa Silao, OTR/L

4:15- 4:40
Eyes on target: Vision skill building in the first grade classroom.
Presenter: Helen Eck, OTR/L

4:40-5:05
The effects of syntactic and lexical complexity on the comprehension of elementary science texts.
Presenter: Diana J. Arya

5:05-5:30
Attitudes toward disabilities and academic accommodations at the university.
Presenter: Gregoria Barazandeh

Parental intrusiveness and childhood anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Presenter: Amy Drahota, M.A.

Handwriting acquisition for young children: Using the write direction.
Presenter: Andrew Gilbert, OTR/L

Vision skills development in special education classes.
Presenter: Lisa Silao, OTR/L

Eyes on target: Vision skill building in the first grade classroom.
Presenter: Helen Eck, OTR/L

The relationship between primary language fluency and the future school success of Hispanic-English language learners
Presenter: Jeffrey B. Kritzer

Perseveration in autism (Hey, he is self-stimming! What is self-stimulation?)
Presenter: Tina Arora

Teacher perceptions of social competence in elementary school-aged children autism.
Presenter: Jill Locke

Positive adaptation in Latino families of children with developmental disabilities.
Presenter: Sandra I. Aldana, MPH

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Projects Grant: Cross-training of special education and elementary education teachers
Presenter: Ellen Cook, M.A.

Identification of autism specific impairments during brief parent-child interactions: Implications for community-based screening projects.
Presenters: Nicolette Nefdt, M.A. & Sharon Elmensdorp, M.A.

National Institute of Mental Health Grant: Teaching communication strategies for young nonverbal children with autism.
Presenter: Suzanne Robinson, M.A.

Koegel Autism Center
Presenters: Crystal Carrillo & Enjey Bahng

9:00-9:25
Response to intervention: A new model for student success. Are educators ready for implementation?
Presenter: Ellen Cook, M.A.

9:25-9:50
The effects of NCLB on academic identity of students of color in special education
Presenter: Adai Tefera

9:50- 10:15
The co-regulation of emotion between mothers and their children with autism.
Presenter: Amanda Gulsrud, M.A.

10:15-10:40
Education’s dirty little secret: The marginalization of special educators
Presenter: Emmy Fearn

10:40-11:05
Why does the United States have such comparatively high rates of diagnosis and treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Presenter: Marc Goodwin

11:05-11:30
Inclusion of secondary students with severe disabilities
Presenter: Jennifer Kurth, M.A.

11:30-11:55
Families with children with cancer: Implications for schools
Presenter: Shelley Nielsen, M.A.