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Route 66 Literacy now available
The Center for Literacy and Disabilirty Studies is pleased to announce that its new literacy instructional program, Route 66, is available for demonstration and use. Developed in conjunction with Benetech Route 66 provides a broad range of literacy instructional supports for adolescent and adult beginning readers. To learn more about Route 66, visit the web site http://www.route66literacy.org.
Case Studies from the Deaf-Blind Model Demonstration Project
The Center for Literacy and Disabilirty Studies, under subcontract with the North Carolina Deaf-Blind Project has been engaged in an effort to develop Deaf-Blind Literacy and Communication Model Demonstration Sites. As part of this effort, we have posted case examples including videos and work samples to help others interested in meeting the literacy and communication needs of students with deaf-blindness in their lives. To read the case and learn more about Jake, click here. To learn about Matthew, click here.
Summer Seminars on Literacy in AAC
The offerings of the Summer Seminar on Literacy in AAC for 2008 are booked. These seminars are taught by Dr. Karen Erickson, Director, Center for Literacy and Disabilities Studies, UNC-CH, and Dr. David Koppenhaver, LRE Department, College of Education, Appalachian State University. Check back to this web site for information regarding courses in 2009. For information regarding hosting a seminar in your area, please contract Karen Erickson.
(last updated 6/6/08)
About
the Center
The Center’s mission is to promote
literacy and communication for individuals of all ages with disabilities.
It is the belief of the CLDS that disabilities are only one of many
factors that influence an individual's ability to learn to read and write
and to use print throughout their life and across their living
environments. All individuals, regardless of their abilities or
disabilities, have the right to an opportunity to learn to read and write
in order to increase and enhance their educational opportunities,
vocational success, communicative competence, self-empowerment
capabilities, and independence.
Article
from the USSAC newsletter
Goals
Five principal goals guide the
interdisciplinary efforts of the Center to:
- Improve literacy of
children, youth, and adults with disabilities by developing
research-based strategies, tools, curricula, and model programs.
- Increase the development and use of appropriate
assessment and instructional strategies and materials to provide a wide range of educational opprortunities for families and professionals.
- Increase the understanding of the relationship between lliteracy and communication through research and development.
- Improve the understanding and use of literacy learning strategies to enhance communication competencies of all persons with disabilities.
- Support the development and
implementation of new and existing policies that improve literacy
learning opportunities for persons with disabilities by collaborating
with local, state, federal, and private agencies and organizations.
History
The Center for Literacy and Disability
Studies is a unit within the Department of Allied Health Sciences, School
of Medicine, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Formerly
known as the Carolina Literacy Center, the CLDS was established in
September, 1990 to address the literacy needs of individuals with severe
speech and physical impairments in North Carolina. The CLDS has expanded
its focus since then and now addresses the needs of individuals with a
range of disabilities in response to the demands of families, educators,
and health care professionals across the United States and the world. The
CLDS has concentrated most of its resources on individuals with severe
and multiple disabilities, an estimated 70-90 percent of whom read and
write at levels significantly below their non-disabled peers.
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