Student Spotlight: Debra Prykanowski
Meet Debra Prykanowski, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the College of Education’s School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies. At the Anita Zucker Center, she has worked with Dr. Maureen Conroy, co-director, on the center’s BEST in...
Center students and faculty to present at annual conference on children with special needs and their families
A strong contingent of Anita Zucker Center students and faculty are joining national experts this week to present, share and inspire at the Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Early Childhood’s 33rd Annual International Conference on Young Children with...
UF College of Law Professor and Anita Zucker Center partner examines inequality among children in forthcoming book
How does every child gain an equal opportunity to develop to his or her fullest potential? According to Anita Zucker Center partner Nancy E. Dowd, professor and David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, equality starts in early childhood. As a 2017 UF Distinguished...
How children with disabilities came to be accepted in public schools.
Dr. Jean Crockett, a professor and Director of the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida, shares the history and the great impact of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (formerly known as...
UF Researcher in Early Childhood Special Education Lends Expertise for National Meeting
Patricia Snyder, a professor of special education and early childhood studies at the University of Florida, is serving in a leadership role for the 2015 Institute of Education Sciences Principal Investigators Meeting in Washington, D.C. The IES is the statistics,...
New UF Graduate Funding Supports, Trains Early Childhood Specialists
Through a new grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the UF College of Education is providing financial support this fall for 12 graduate students in early childhood special education. The new master’s students in the college’s Unified Early Childhood Program...
Brian Reichow was named a Global Fellow by the University of Florida’s International Center
Brian Reichow was named a Global Fellow by the University of Florida’s International Center. A new program designed to enhance the university’s international research excellence, the Global Fellows Program hopes to increase the number of faculty who participate in...
Cynthia Johnson named Fellow of American Psychological Association
University of Florida autism researcher Cynthia Johnson, Ph.D., has been awarded fellowship status in the American Psychological Association’s Division 33, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders. Johnson, an associate professor of...