Diane Browder

The purpose of this project was to develop materials for teaching mathematical problem solving to students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities. The goal was to combine methods used to teach problem solving to students with high-incidence disabilities and evidence-based practices for teaching mathematics to students with moderate/severe intellectual disabilities. Students with significant cognitive impairments often have difficulty participating in key aspects of the mathematic...

Students with significant cognitive impairments often have difficulty participating in key aspects of the math and science learning processes. Many of these students have not had access to the general education curriculum. Recent education policy has encouraged instruction and assessment efforts to focus on grade level content for all students, including students with significant cognitive impairments. In order for these students to be evaluated on grade level content, new alternate assessm...

The RAISE (Reading and Accommodations Interventions for Students with Emergent Literacy) research project is a partnership between the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), and LifeSpan Community Services (LS) to conduct scientifically based research to evaluate interventions to teach reading to students with moderate and severe mental retardation (MR) in grades K-3.