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    2010

  • Dr. Jean Hall presented findings from the Working Healthy program evaluation to members of the Kansas Legislature at a reception hosted by the Kansas Employment First Taskforce on January 13, 2010. Click HERE to download presentation.
  • Dr. Mellard has been appointed to serve on a National Academy of Sciences committee focused on adolescent and adult literacy. The Committee on Learning Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Adolescent and Adult Literacy comprises experts from such fields as education, psychology, and neuroscience, among others. Committee members will prepare a final report identifying promising areas for future research and providing guidance for those currently providing adolescent literacy and adult education services. The committee began meeting May 21. Its final report is due in Fall 2011.

    • 2009

  • Dr. Richard Johnson will be presenting an information session about Wilson Reading Systems® successes with adult learners in six Kansas cities August 3 through 5, 2009. See http://das.kucrl.org/wilsontraining/ for more information.
  • Dr. Mellard has been appointed to serve on a National Academy of Sciences committee focused on adolescent and adult literacy. The Committee on Learning Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Adolescent and Adult Literacy comprises experts from such fields as education, psychology, and neuroscience, among others. Committee members will prepare a final report identifying promising areas for future research and providing guidance for those currently providing adolescent literacy and adult education services. The committee began meeting May 21. Its final report is due in Fall 2011.
  • Dr. Hall will be presenting at the AcademyHealth 2009 Annual Research conference on Tuesday, June 30 in Chicago. She will be discussing "Working Healthy: A Medicaid Buy-In Success Story." The conference brings together health services researchers, providers and key decision makers to focus on challenges brought on by the health care delivery system.
  • Dr. Mellard will be participating at the Symposium for Scholars, Practitioners & Policy Makers, presented by Changing Conceptions of Special Education.

    The symposium will be held April 24-25 at the University of Delaware1s School of Education.

    The symposium will consist of three sessions and will feature presentations from Alfredo Artiles, Mary Brownell, Mary Beth Bruder, Sherman Dorn, Doug Fuchs, and Maggie McLaughlin. An intense discussion among the presenters and participants will follow the speeches.

  • Dr. Mellard and Dr. Deshler will be presenting at the KU-CRL Pearl Anniversary Preconference on July 14-15. It will be held at the Kansas City Marriot and Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, MO.

    Dr. Mellard and Dr. Deshler will be talking about their session, Applying an RTI Framework to Adolescent-Age Students, which will review RTI models, important decisions for their application in a middle school, and directions for developing, implementing, and scaling up. Learning Disability Prevalence and Adult Education Program Characteristics (Patterson, 2008) in Learning Disabilities Research & Practice.

 

    2007

  • Assessing the Health Care Needs of Kansas' Young Adults with Disabilities (Hall & Starrett, 2007) in Kansas Nurse.

  • Program Characteristics that Predict Improved Learner Outcomes (Patterson & Mellard, 2007) in Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal.
  • Road to Success: Helping Young Adults with Learning Disabilities Plan and Prepare for Employment (Johnson, Mellard, & Lancaster, 2007) in Teaching Exceptional Children

 

    2006

  • Dr. Jean Hall and Barbara Starrett’s work with the Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy is featured in Kansas Connections, a publication of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Rural Health Education and Services KS Connections Fall 2006.

  • Kurth, N.K., & Mellard, D.F. (2006). Student perceptions of the
    accommodations process in postsecondary education. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 19(1). 69-82.
  • Dr. Jean P. Hall co-presents "Early Impact and Experiences of Medicare Part D on Participants in Kansas and Maine Medicaid Buy-in Programs" to the annual conference of the National Consortium for Health Systems Development in Chicago on November 9, 2006.
  • Dr. Jean Hall and Barbara Starrett’s work with the Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy is featured in Kansas Connections, a publication of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Rural Health Education and Services KS Connections Fall 2006.
  • Dr. Jean P. Hall co-presents "Early Impact and Experiences of Medicare Part D on Participants in Kansas and Maine Medicaid Buy-in Programs" to the annual conference of the National Consortium for Health Systems Development in Chicago on November 9, 2006.
  • Dr. Jean Hall presenting "Employment and Health Care for People with
    Disabilities" at the KU Summer Transitions Institute.
  • Margaret Patterson, Assistant Project Coordinator / Research Staff on the Improving Adult Literacy Instruction project, will be presenting at:
  • SLD Identification: What We Know....What We Don't Know Presented at: 2006 Council for Exceptional Children Convention and Expo
  • Early Intervening Services and Responsiveness to Intervention: Research and Practice Implications for School Psychologists Presented at: National Association of School Psychologist 2006 Annual Convention
  • Recently published in Adult Basic Education (Vol. 16, No. 1): Feasibility of Explicit Instruction in Adult Basic Education: Instructor-Learner Interaction Patterns by Drs. Daryl Mellard and David Scanlon.