New Challenges in Special Education

01/07/2021
New Challenges in Special Education

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Episode Synopsis


This school year the number of students enrolled in programs for disabilities went down in Indiana for the first time in years. Today we talk to reporters about how special education students and teachers have been impacted by the pandemic.

We also talk to someone who specializes in making things accessible for people with disabilities, and learn about efforts to help students transition out of high school.

Produced by Drew Daudelin.

Guests:

Dylan Peers McCoy
Investigative Education Reporter, WFYI

Lee Gaines
Investigative Education Reporter, WFYI

Ross Edelstein
Doctoral Candidate, Indiana University

Cathlene Hardy Hansen
Director of the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center

Michael Nevins
Research Associate, Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center