New Paper Published by Liora Valero and Alida Anderson, PhD

"The reading and writing challenges that students with LD face in academic classroom settings, such as social studies classrooms, are ever present because students are expected to read, understand, and use text-based language that they cannot access due to text-reading difficulties."

Intermediate Academic Club Teacher Liora Valero and Associate Professor, School of Education, American University Alida Anderson PhD recently published  “Supporting Academic Vocabulary and Social-Emotional Skills of Students With Learning Disabilities Through an Arts-Integrated Social Studies Approach” in the Council for Exceptional Children’s Teaching Exceptional Children.

Read it in full here.

Dr. Anderson and Ms. Valero are currently developing their next project related to arts integration and social emotional learning outcomes for students in inclusive classroom settings.