Matthew Lambert

The goal of this project is to better understand associations between parental involvement and education outcomes for high school students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorder (EBD). As a group, youth with EBD experience high rates of dropout and juvenile arrest, and poorer academic performance when compared to youth without disabilities and those in other disability groups. While it has been widely documented that parental involvement plays an important role in the education outcom...

This postdoctoral program trained four postdoctoral fellows in the development and evaluation of educational interventions and assessments for students with emotional disturbance (ED). The training program centered around the partnership between the university and Boys Town, a national provider of intervention services to children with or at risk for disabilities.