Name: Wesley Kobashigawa
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Program: Counseling Psychology Ph.D.
Year: First year (just completed)
Project: Building Bridges
What will you be doing with the project?
I help oversee the high school prevention program and provide individual and group counseling for at-risk ninth- and 10th-graders. I also collect pre- and post-treatment data to assess the efficacy of our treatment approach.
Early childhood special education providers, services coordinators and supervisors from across the state gathered at Nebraska Innovation Campus June 5-8 for Getting Ready training sessions.
Hosted by CYFS faculty and staff, a pair of two-day training sessions focused on translating evidence-based research practices into real-world settings to positively impact children and their families. Part C state trainers delivered the training material after having received one year of training and support in Getting Ready from CYFS faculty and staff.
Name: Rileigh Burke
Hometown: Hinton, Iowa
Program: School Psychology
Year: First year (just completed)
Project: Traineeship in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
What will you be doing with the project?
Specializing in toddlers with autism.
How did you become interested in your field?
Recent school psychology graduate Tyler Smith is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award for the American Psychological Association’s Division 16 (School Psychology). Smith’s dissertation will be recognized Aug. 11 at the APA’s annual convention in San Francisco.
Name: Heejae Chung
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Program: School Psychology
Year: First year (just completed)
Project: Traineeship in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
What will you be doing with the project?
I am broadly learning about autism spectrum disorder.
Name: Sonia Lindner
Program: Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology
Year: First year (just completed)
Project: Coaching Science Inquiry in Rural Schools
What will you be doing with the project?
I am helping to generate and implement a coding scheme that will be used to analyze video-recorded coaching sessions with middle school and high school teachers. The project aims to identify which elements of the coaching process lead to desired teacher and student outcomes.
Name: Danae Peterson
Program: Ph.D. in Educational Studies/Instructional Technology
Year: First year (just completed)
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
Project: Coaching Science Inquiry in Rural Schools
What will you be doing with the project?
I will be working with the team to help code videos of previously recorded coaching collaboration.
Faculty and students from two continents came together recently in Lincoln for a pair of research luncheons to update one another on various joint projects.
Researchers from the University Federal Rural of Pernambuco in Brazil visited Lincoln April 24 to meet with their CYFS faculty and student counterparts in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln/Brazil Early Childhood Partnership. A second group of Brazilian researchers, from University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, were on campus May 8 to discuss their projects with their Nebraska partners.