DeLTA Center Faculty & Student Grants Awarded
Jun 02, 2016
Faculty and Student Grants have been awarded for 2015-16.
DeLTA/College of Education Faculty Grant
A $7,000 grant has been awarded to Erica Kaldenberg (College of Education) and DeLTA Center member Meredith Saletta to conduct studies that will help assess factors in the accessibility of college level science texts for adults with intellectual and learning disabilities (abstract).
Student Interdisciplinary Grants
Two $1,000 student interdisciplinary grants have been awarded. Nicole Hendrix received an award to research the role of hand gesture in early childhood mathematical learning (abstract) and Maura Curran received the award for her proposal to examine the potential for improved content acquisition in young learners with SLI through language intervention in causal adverbials (abstract).