@rachelbowmanphd.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Special Education, mom, swiftie
Hey. Go update your CV.
02.05.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Are you passionate about special education? We're inviting 15 CEC members to apply for a virtual op-ed writing workshop mini-series to help you turn your expertise into powerful opinion pieces.
Learn more and apply today: exceptionalchildren.org/blog/call-ap...
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22.04.2025 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can states withhold the tax revenue we would otherwise send to the feds so we can inspect our own goddamned food? www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
17.04.2025 22:09 — 👍 9084 🔁 2563 💬 547 📌 201
Ph.D. in Educational Studies with a specialization in Special Education. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Preparing leaders to support children with disabilities and their families through partnership, collaboration, and the use of evidence-based practices.
Study with faculty members with the following research foci: Autism and AAC Autism and applied behavior analysis Intellectual and developmental disabilities Literacy Mathematics Learning disabilities Visual impairments Deaf/hard of hearing
Mentoring Faculty Pam Bazis: Dyslexia and dysgraphia; Intervention development in foundational reading skills; Transcription skills (handwriting and spelling); Written expression pbazis2@unl.edu Birdie Ganz: Autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities; Augmentative and alternative communication; Applied behavior analysis; Coaching families from minoritized groups jganz3@unl.edu Susan Loveall-Hague: Learning, language, and literacy in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; Down syndrome sloveall-hague2@unl.edu Ciara Ousley: Autism and developmental disabilities in young children (birth to 8); Social communication and play skills; AAC; Families; Naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions cousley2@unl.edu Mackenzie Savaiano: Visual impairments and instructional methods msavaiano2@unl.edu Anne Thomas: Language and literacy development in children who are deaf/hard of hearing; Interprofessional education (IPE) in teacher preparation programs; Progress monitoring of IEP goals athomas16@unl.edu Jing Wang: Mathematics intervention; Diverse learners from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (including English Learners); Inclusive education jwang99@unl.edu
Mentoring Faculty Pam Bazis: Dyslexia and dysgraphia; Intervention development in foundational reading skills; Transcription skills (handwriting and spelling); Written expression pbazis2@unl.edu Birdie Ganz: Autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities; Augmentative and alternative communication; Applied behavior analysis; Coaching families from minoritized groups jganz3@unl.edu Susan Loveall-Hague: Learning, language, and literacy in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; Down syndrome sloveall-hague2@unl.edu Ciara Ousley: Autism and developmental disabilities in young children (birth to 8); Social communication and play skills; AAC; Families; Naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions cousley2@unl.edu Mackenzie Savaiano: Visual impairments and instructional methods msavaiano2@unl.edu Anne Thomas: Language and literacy development in children who are deaf/hard of hearing; Interprofessional education (IPE) in teacher preparation programs; Progress monitoring of IEP goals athomas16@unl.edu Jing Wang: Mathematics intervention; Diverse learners from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (including English Learners); Inclusive education jwang99@unl.edu
I'm still accepting SPED PhD students for Fall 2025, who are interested in autism/intellectual/developmental disabilities and communication interventions! Please share and email me if interested!
University of Nebraska
Jganz3@unl.edu
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Do you know an incredible special educator or special education department? Do they deserve lunch on CEC? Tell us what makes them great for a chance to win lunch for them during Teacher Appreciation Week! Nominations are due by April 21, 2025.
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Based on a true story.
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This year marks 50 years of IDEA. #CEC2025 attendees share their thoughts on the impact of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act on children, youth, and adults with disabilities. How has IDEA impacted your life?
12.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Wow! So like…then what happens?
12.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My PhD was grant funded by OSEP. I have a service agreement. No idea if anyone is around to verify hours or answer questions. I know this is low priority for DoEd right now, but like, what do I do?
How the layoffs impact me personally is truly the least of my concerns, but it’s still a concern!
Recovering from surgery is really making me get behind this whole severance thing. Like praise Kier I’m all for it.
09.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next week!
20.02.2025 03:44 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0There's so much for us to fight for right now. It's devastating, exhausting, and it's also possible. We can't forget past and present organizers who have always been fighting for justice.
They have always shown us that collective resistance works. Let's do this, but never alone. ❤️
Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎
04.02.2025 00:22 — 👍 20507 🔁 8692 💬 584 📌 350![This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters.
Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sox6xar4qdc3ujhi5h4whtlh/bafkreiazjyxk6foryp6lzxcqbls62uaokwhjrjmnzg5uqpdimg77xrt26a@jpeg)
This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters. Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
02.02.2025 14:25 — 👍 4007 🔁 1720 💬 45 📌 74I miss Jamboard. I haven’t found anything that works as well, is completely free, and doesn’t require students to create accounts. Anyone find a great substitute yet?
31.01.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
*while lecturing about the disability rights movement*
Student: I have a question but I’m not sure if you can even answer it since you weren’t alive in the 70s
Me: That is the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me 🥹
I did it. I made my entire asynchronous course in advance. Every assignment. Every due date. Every reading. All organized by week with a weekly message explaining the content. All set to open for students every Monday. Holy moly. Future Rachel will thank me.
08.01.2025 20:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
New pub today, focused on the ethnoracial diversity of the special ed teacher (SET) workforce.
We found that -- at current rate of change -- the SET workforce will NEVER be ethnoracially representative of the population of students w/disabilities.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/VPMXC...
Guys grading is a LOT 🥴
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