Utah Conference on Effective Practices in
Special Education &Rehabilitation: Interventions Across the Lifespan
2008 Effective Practices Conference
Speakers
The sixth annual conference will be held from June 16 - 19, 2008 at Utah State University.
The conference is organized in four strands with nationally recognized keynote presenters.
 |
Michael Bullis, Ph.D. - PostsecondaryMichael Bullis is the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Oregon and the Sommerville-Knight Professor. He was the Director of the College’s Secondary Special Education and Transition Research Unit for five years and currently is the Director of the National Post-School Outcomes Center, a technical assistance center funded through the U.S. Department of Education. Since 1986, Dr. Bullis has managed 38 externally funded federal and state evaluation contracts, research, and model demonstration projects – totaling more than $22 million and leveraging another $4.5 million in state matching funds. Much of this work has focused on community-based job placement and support procedures for adolescents and young adults with high risk behaviors, including those individuals leaving the correctional system or the mental health system. He has more than 150 professional publications and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin. He is a former editor of Career Development for Exceptional Individuals. |
 |
Vivian Correa, Ph.D. - Cultural Linguistic DiversityDr. Vivian Correa is a Distinguished Professor of Early Childhood and Special Education at Clemson University. In 2000-2001, Dr. Correa served a one-year term as the Matthew J. Guglielmo Endowed Chair at California State University, Los Angeles. A native Puerto Rican, Dr. Correa has extensive experience with children with disabilities birth to age five, bilingual special education, multicultural education, unified teacher education, and working with culturally diverse families. She is currently working with Mexican mothers of preschoolers on home literacy practices and shared book reading. Dr. Correa has over 40 published book chapters and articles in professional journals, and is the co-author of a textbook titled Interactive Teaming: Enhancing Programs for Students with Special Needs (4th Edition). She was also co-editor of Teacher Education and Special Education and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal for Early Intervention. |
 |
Joseph K. Torgesen, Ph.D. - LiteracyDr. Joseph Torgesen holds the Russell and Eugenia Morcom Chair of Psychology and Education at Florida State University. He is also the Director Emeritus of the Florida Center for Reading Research, and the Director of Reading for the National Center on Instruction in Reading, Math, and Science. He has been conducting research with children who have learning problems for over 30 years, and is the author of over 180 articles, book chapters, books, and tests related to reading and learning disabilities. He is the recent recipient of the Orton Award from the International Dyslexia Association, and he was appointed by President Bush to serve on the National Board of Education Sciences. |
 |
William L. Heward, Ed.D., BCBA - Positive Behavior SupportsWilliam Heward is Professor Emeritus of Education at The Ohio State University (OSU) where he taught for 30 years. Internationally recognized for his work in special education and applied behavior analysis, Dr. Heward has served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Portugal and a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Keio University in Tokyo. His publications include more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and nine books, including the widely used texts, Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education, which is in its ninth edition and has been translated into several foreign languages, and Applied Behavior Analysis (co-authored with John O. Cooper and Timothy E. Heron). Dr. Heward has received OSU’s highest honor for teaching excellence, the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and the American Psychological Association's Division 25 recognized his contributions to education by awarding him the 2006 Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award. Dr. Heward is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and is currently serving as that organization’s President. His current research interests include “low-tech” methods for increasing the effectiveness of group instruction and adaptations of curriculum and instruction that promote the generalization and maintenance of newly learned knowledge and skills. |