College of Education
Research Projects
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Post-Doctoral Research Training in Language and Literacy with Special Populations Program
The goal of this training program is to offer individualized research experiences within the context of interdisciplinary research teams. Program faculty have projects designed to empirically validate educational interventions that promote language or literacy development in special populations: children, adolescents, and adults at risk for, or with, identified disabilities. Trainees will have the opportunity to work on one of the following IES or NIH-funded projects, as well as work on archival data sets.
Behavior and Learning Disability Projects
The Juvenile Justice Teacher Project is investigating issues related to juvenile justice teacher attrition and retention in Georgia. Two central questions are being addressed. The first question is related to the current status of juvenile justice teacher attrition and retention in Georgia. The second question focuses on the impact of reform on teacher attrition and retention in Georgia.
The School-Wide Discipline Project implements models for effective discipline programs in public schools in Georgia.
Preparing Urban Leaders for Special Education (PULSE) is a doctoral level leadership preparation program funded by the USDOE. PULSE cohort members and advisor profiles
Communication Disorders Projects
Georgia State University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic - Georgia State University's Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is located in the College of Education Building on the campus of Georgia State University. The clinic is well equipped with a state of the art video system, computerized laboratory equipment, and a wealth of materials and tests.
Educational Psychology Projects
Improving Deaf Preschoolers' Literacy Skills
Amy Lederberg, Principal Investigator: Susan Easterbrooks, and Carol Connor, Co-investigators
The purpose of this study is to develop and obtain preliminary evidence on the efficacy of a new curriculum called Foundations for Literacy. The curriculum is designed to foster phonics, phonological awareness, vocabulary, narrative and comprehension skills in deaf and hard of hearing children. While using a framework provided by empirically-validated effective emergent literacy curriculum for hearing children, Foundations for Literacy also meets the special needs and characteristics of deaf and hard of hearing children.
The Center for the Study of Adult Literacy is currently conducting a large NIH funded research project on different approaches to teaching adult learners how to read better.
An Arts and Education Assessment Project with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Alliance Theatre Institute to assess professional development opportunities for educators to integrate the arts into teaching.
The Office for Direct Instruction, which consults with school systems in reading instruction.
Multiple and Severe Disability Projects
The Bureau for Students with Multiple and Severe Disabilities, which consults with school systems.
An Office of Special Education and March of Dimes funded research project, which investigates vocabulary growth of deaf children enrolled in schools throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area.
The Georgia Sensory Assistance Project provides technical assistance to children and youth with deafblindness from birth through 21 years of age and to their families and service providers.
Project SCEIs: Skilled Credential Early Interventionists. This project funded by The Georgia Department of Human Resources provides training throughout Georgia to those who serve infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
The Bureau of Students with Physical and Health Impairments provides technical assistance to school age children and youth with orthopedic impairments, and their teachers, service providers, and families.
Two Assistive Technology Labs, with one assistive technology lab specializing in Physical and Learning Impairments and the second lab specializing in Sensory Impairments, Augmentative Communication, and Daily Living Skills.
The Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Project to train personnel in the 19 health districts to respond to the needs of parents whose infants have been identified as having a hearing loss.
The Center for Collaborative Education provides model schools, technical assistance and training for the inclusion of students with disabilities.