UW Reading Development Project

📣WA Families: Are meals with your child stressing you out?! 🍽

Help support new research at the UW that hopes to learn more about mealtimes for families of kids age 2-6 with and without disabilities!

Click here to participate in a brief, anonymous survey: https://uweducation.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dn8iUriZmI6ynlA

💙💛What a great day for a walk! 💙💛
We had a great time celebrating our RDP families, , and at the Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound Buddy Walk yesterday!

It's back to school season and we are celebrating educators! Thank you for all you do! 📚✏💕

Tag your favorite special educator in the comments, and we'll randomly select 3 winners for a Starbucks gift card!

If you want to learn more about the RDP, click the link: https://forms.gle/52ofzyYSbUwkTcV88

Learn more about our lead investigator! We are so lucky to have her! 💜

Can you believe it’s already June? Well, we’ve got our June Haring Center staff spotlight for you!

𝗥𝗼𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗻,
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻: Bellingham, WA
𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗿𝗲: 16 years

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹? My work focuses on two areas. One, I prepare special education pre-service teachers to teach reading and writing to a wide range of students and help them view literacy in expansive ways so they can think of meaningful literacy instruction and experiences for all their students regardless of their disability label. I also prepare Ph.D. researchers who are focused on understanding reading and writing development and intervention focused on students with disabilities. Two, I research reading development and intervention for children with disabilities. My current project is measuring the language and literacy knowledge in important areas for reading of children with Intellectual/Developmental Disability in grades 1-3. We are then following them for three years to see how they develop over time. This project is the first of its kind in the United States.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸? My own time as a special educator inspires my work. I had so many questions about how to teach reading to my students that I wanted answers. Reading and writing are such important skills in our society and open many doors for people from accessing academic content to texting with loved ones to reading instructions from the doctor. I believe everyone deserves to have access to the type of reading and writing that make sense to them and everyone is capable of learning if we provide the right instruction.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀? I own a diversified organic farm with my husband. We grow lots of different berries and vegetables and have a wonderful crew of young people who help make it successful. We use our farm to help combat climate change through sequestering carbon in the 2000 trees we've planted, the electric truck we use on the farm, and the two solar systems that generate 20% of our energy needs. And grow delicious healthy food for lots of people.

What does autism awareness and autism acceptance mean to you? Let's celebrate today by elevating the voices and stories people with autism! 💕🧩🌎

How autism freed me to be myself “People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with a specific label,” says 16-year-old Rosie King, who is bold, brash and autistic. She wants to know: Why is everyone so worried about being normal? She sounds a clarion call for every kid, parent, teacher...

Today marks the beginning of World Autism Month! 🌎🧩💙
Let's celebrate and !!!

April is Autism Acceptance Month, but Autism inclusion and acceptance needs to be supported year-round!

Our mission at Washington Autism Alliance is to expand access to healthcare, education and services for people with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities in Washington State.

Want to help children and adults with ASD thrive? Register and help us raise funds during Day Out for Autism, April 24th!



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"Freddie is smart, caring, and hopefully one da use those deep interests to make a positive difference in the world" ~Nikki.
WashingtonAutismAlliance.org

Today is ! Sport and wear your 💙 & 💛 to celebrate!

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What is World Down Syndrome Day? Check out this short film which answers the question what is World Down Syndrome Day and let's you know how you can take part on 21 March each year! ...

Let's talk about Literacy! 📚☕️📖

We're looking for families to tell us how they build a love of books and learning with their children!

Do you want to share your story?? We'd 💕 LOVE 💕 to hear it! https://forms.gle/84SEaUYDWpn7Ve3B8

WOW! Way to go! 🚲
What an inspiring way to celebrate and bring awareness to ! We are so glad to work with the Haring Center for Inclusive Education and Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound!

321 for 3/21 - Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound The Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound (DSC) is proud to present 321 for 3/21, a 3-day bike ride in celebration of World Down Syndrome Day. Trisomy 21 is the most common type of Down syndrome caused by an extra (third) copy of the 21st chromosome. In essence, a person with Trisomy 21 has three [...