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K-12 Dive, a leading online publication for in-depth news and trends in K-12 education, reported from Dr. Stephanie Cawthon’s SXSW EDU session on March 9 with Dr. Elizabeth Barker — highlighting the three key areas where COVID-19 challenged special education. Reporter Kara Arundel focused on sessions insights about special education…

Large scale assessment of students is a foundational piece of state and federal policy. Yet deaf and disabled students and English learners often face evaluations that are not designed with the full range of test-takers in mind. Educators and administrators who have questions about how to ensure assessments are accessible…

Doctoral student Claire Ryan is the recipient of the Alvin R. Tarlov & John E. Ware Jr. Doctoral Dissertation Award in Patient Reported Outcomes for 2020-21 by the Health Assessment Lab (HAL) at Dartmouth University. She was selected for the $20,000 award by HAL’s selection committee and board of directors for…

COVID-19 and Reaching Students with Disabilities Online, a session led by Drs. Stephanie W. Cawthon and Elizabeth Barker, was selected among hundreds of submissions for 2021 SWSW EDU, an international gathering of educators and thought leaders seeking to advance teaching and learning. >> READ K-12 DIVE’S REPORT FROM THE SESSION This…

Stephanie W. Cawthon, PhD, wrote a guest blog post for NWEA on the case for including disability in conversations about race — and vice versa. She writes: If we want to truly improve equity in education, we must expand our thinking about what diversity is to include disability—and we must…

This is a guest blog post written by Ana Guadalupe Vielma, one of Dr. Stephanie Cawthon’s mentees. She is a second-year doctoral student in the Human Development, Culture, and Learning Sciences program in the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, where she investigates psychological assessments…

Stephanie W. Cawthon, PhD, is the keynote speaker at the Michigan Statewide Conference on Transition for Students with Disabilities on February 26, 2021. Her keynote address, Transition to Adulthood: Beyond the Checklist to a Design for Life, calls on educators of deaf, deafblind, blind and low vision, and disabled students to…

In an important “first” for The University of Texas College of Education, Dr. Stephanie Cawthon delivered a commencement address in American Sign Language (ASL) at the fall 2020 graduation ceremony. Watch Dr. Cawthon’s commencement address. Her address, which was interpreted by Amanda Katz, advised graduates to prioritize people over projects,…

For the approximately 466 million people globally who are deaf or hard of hearing, the COVID-19 pandemic has literally added an additional layer to already-difficult communication in the form of traditional cloth face masks. But companies like Apple and institutions like the University of Texas at Austin have realized the…

Stephanie W. Cawthon, PhD, wrote a guest blog post for NWEA on her ongoing research that debunks myths about the reading and literacy levels of deaf people. She writes: “I often hear the phrase ‘deaf people read at a fourth-grade level,’ a belief that has long dogged the field of…