Students Funded in 1996 Six doctoral students who attended CMSE proposal writing workshops were funded in 1996 under the Office of Special Education Programs Student-Initiated Research Projects competition. Nineteen projects were funded nationally. The six successful CMSE clients were: Mr. Manuel Barrera, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; Ms. Genevra Clasberry, Illinois State Univ., Bloomington, IL; Ms. Fern Diamond, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; Ms. Maria Lopez, Univ. of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA; Ms. Zanthia Smith, Lamar Univ., Beaumont, TX; and Ms. Bertha Williams, Southern U. A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA. The awards are for projects that focus on special education and related services for children and youth with disabilities and early intervention services for infants and toddlers. The six successful CMSE clients had attended CMSE Student-Initiated Proposal Writing Workshops in the fall of 1995. Of 16 student participants at the CMSE workshops, twelve submitted proposals in 1996. Mr. Manuel Barrera (right) pictured with his advisor, Dr. Kathy L. Ruhl. His project "Effects of the Pause Procedure With or Without Peer Discussion on the Recall and Lecture Notes of Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities and Limited English Proficiency" investigates the efficacy of the pause procedure for use with secondary limited English proficiency (LEP) students with learning disabilities. Ms. Genevra Clasberry (right) pictured with her advisor, Dr. Ming-Gon John Lian. Her project "Questionnaire Survey, Related IEP Review, and Practitioners Interview for Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of Effective Field Practice and Dissemination" explores the general characteristics of an inclusive program, to investigate common teaching and accommodation strategies used in the classroom with inclusion students, and to investigate school personnel's perceptions of the strategies used. Ms. Fern Diamond (right) pictured with her advisor, Dr. Anna Gajar. Her project "Self-Management Behavioral Interventions with American Indian Adolescents Diagnosed as Serious Emotionally Disturbed (SED) and/or Behavior Disordered (BD)" designs and uses a culturally relevant self-monitoring components to meet the needs of Native American adolescents who have been diagnosed as SED/BD. The project of Ms. Maria Lopez (not pictured) is titled "A Comparison of Social Skills Training Techniques to Promote the Inclusion of Special Education African American and Anglo Students into Regular Classrooms" and compares the effectiveness of peer modeling and self-modeling, and determines which intervention is more effective in prompting acquisition, maintenance, and generalization of skills. Ms. Zanthia Smith (right) pictured with her advisor, Dr. Jean Andrews. Her project "A Study of Four African-American Families Reading to Their Young Deaf Children: A Longitudinal Study" investigates the effects of providing training for parents of African American deaf children in Sign Language, parent-child book reading behaviors, and early writing activities. Ms. Bertha Williams, (right) pictured with student Mr. John Armendariz, was a Student Consultant at a 1997 writing workshop. Her project "Self-Monitoring: Its Effects on Behavior, Academic Performance, Self-Concept, and Locus of Control of African-American Male Adolescents with Emotional and Behavior Disorders" investigates the extent self-monitoring increases on-task behaviors of African-American male adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders; and examines the relationship between self-monitoring and self-concept considering locus of control as an intervening variable. CMSE Online Return to BSRC Hampton University