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ICI Director Kiernan Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee
July 29, 2009 by Office of Communications
William E. Kiernan, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, testified before a Senate employment subcommittee on the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). He was accompanied by David Hoff, Senior Technical Assistance Specialist at ICI. The hearing was initiated by Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety.0 Comments
Moving Beyond Disability Services to “Universal Design”
July 31, 2009 by Lissa Harris
Most math teachers teach geometry proofs the same way: by drawing shapes on a blackboard. But how do you explain congruent triangles to a blind student? A few years ago, inspired to tackle the challenge of teaching highly visual concepts to the visually impaired, assistant education professor Stanley Dick began building triangles out of 1x2 pine boards.To his surprise, Dick found that even his sighted students—middle and high school math teachers looking for ways to teach their own visually impaired students—gained fresh understanding from shapes they could hold and touch.
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