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New center to develop interventions for writing, reading disabilities
UW Today
January 25, 2012
The University of Washington College of Education has been awarded an $8.1 million, five-year federal grant to study how best to teach writing and reading to both learning-disabled and typically achieving children.
The grant will fund the new Center for Defining and Treating Specific Learning Disabilities in Written Language, headed by Virginia Berninger.
CARE at Haring Center offers support for those with neurodevelopment issues
Seattle Times
January 3, 2012
Two years ago, Cindy Cables discovered CARE at Haring, and a new future began to take shape for mother and daughter.
CARE, a not-for-profit clinic that benefits from The Seattle Times Fund For The Needy, provides therapy, coaching, education and case management for clients and families affected by neurodevelopmental disabilities such as autism, Tourette syndrome, attention-deficit disorder and bipolar disorder. Other clients, such as Stacia, have neurological issues that defy labeling. More»
"I feel like ... this place saved my life."
That's how Patrick Okell, parent of an autistic son, describes the Haring Center's Experimental Education Unit. Center Director Ilene Schwartz is also interviewed.
Research That Matters 2011
The College of Education has dedicated the 2011 issue of Research That Matters to an expansive and timely topic: learning across the lifespan. Understanding education from inside and outside school walls, as well as across a lifetime, enables our researchers to design smart, system-wide strategies for closing the achievement gap that plagues our nation.