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| Grant Program: | Cognition and Student Learning in Special Education |
| Contact: |
Dr. Emily Weaver (202) 245-7114 emily.weaver@ed.gov |
| Description: | REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS: PURPOSE This topic was developed to establish a scientific foundation for learning and development in special education by building on the theoretical and empirical advances gained through the cognitive sciences and applying them to special education practice. Cognitive skills, including executive functions such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control, are essential for learning and promoting positive social and behavioral outcomes. These skills enable students to perceive, focus on, store, organize, and retrieve information in ways that promote learning and achievement across a variety of content areas. Many students with or at risk for disabilities demonstrate impairments in certain cognitive skills, which is why it is important to better understand profiles of cognitive skills, their relation to education outcomes, and interventions to improve them for students with or at risk for disabilities. Research funded by this program has explored linkages between these processes and academic outcomes, developed and tested interventions to improve these processes and associated academic outcomes, and developed and/or validated measures of cognitive processes. For example, this research has contributed to our understanding of the executive functioning skills in students with or at risk for certain disabilities, the relation between working memory and academic skills and social/behavioral outcomes, and interventions that are based on the principles of cognitive science and hold promise for improving student outcomes. PORTFOLIO SUMMARY Exploration Projects RELATED PROJECTS & PROGRAMS
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