Special Education at UL-Lafayette

10/27/2022

08/24/2022

Check out the newly updated Educators Practice Guide report on, Preparing Young Children for School!

12/14/2021

Follow this link to apply:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWqPvYO4OnpAVpSejcxCRTP0aXYiOhLDpKqHtzBjecSuNVhg/viewform

12/07/2021

Absolutely! 📝🤍

11/18/2021

“Another role that universities may play is in the building of new institutions of civil society, in developing new cultural values, and in training and socializing people of new social era.”
Radhe Shyam Sharma

Be part of the change. Become a special educator at


via .app

11/16/2021

Some responsibilities of special education teachers include:
- Teaching students with disabilities in general or special education settings.
- Preparing lessons and resources needed to teach students with disabilities in or out the special education classroom.
- Assessing students’ work completed in regular or special education class
- Developing and adapting individualized teaching methods suitable for students with disabilities
- Supporting students’ use of assistive technology
- Collaborate with general educators and other professionals involved in their students’ education
- Collaborate with students’ parents, teachers, and related service professionals to design individualized education plans (IEP) for students with disabilities.
- Collect data to monitor students’ progress on individual goals.
- Communicate with students’ parents to update them on the progress of their children with disabilities.

And much more!

11/01/2021

How can you become the window to a better future for your students?

via .app

10/29/2021

Maria Isolina Bravo-Ruiz is an associate professor of special education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Before starting her career in higher education, Dr. Bravo-Ruiz had extensive experience as a special education teacher, instructional coach, bilingual assessment specialist, inclusive practices strategist, and educational consultant. Her research interests include exploring factors that influence parental participation in the education of their children with disabilities, school collaboration with families of children with special needs, and developing responsive educators who can effectively address the needs of diverse students, including multilinguals and students with disabilities.

This semester, Dr. Bravo-Ruiz is teaching:

SPED 484/SPED474 Assessment of Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities

SPED 511 Math Interventions for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities

SPED 422 Working with Families of Young Children with Disabilities

Dr. Bravo-Ruiz enjoys cooking, gardening, dancing, learning new languages, and spending time with family and friends.

via .app

10/29/2021

Happy Halloween!🧡

10/26/2021

An accommodation is an alteration of the learning environment, curriculum format, or means of communication that allows an individual with a disability to gain access to academic content, complete assigned tasks, and participate in daily activities with peers.
In a school setting, an accommodation does not alter the academic content taught; instead, it makes it possible for students with disabilities to benefit from instruction and make progress in the regular curriculum.
And example of an accommodation would be allowing a student with a specific learning disability in reading to have additional time to complete assignments since it is expected that the student would take longer than students without disabilities to decode the words on the page or to process the meaning of those words in context to fully comprehend the material. The student would still be reading the same information and completing the same assignment as the rest of students in his class but would be given more time to do it.


via .app

10/22/2021

Like❤️ if you agree.

10/22/2021

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein

📚🙇🏼‍♀️🙇🏾