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Center For Innovation and Leadership In Special Education

Training Leaders To Transform Special Education
Training Leaders To Transform Special Education
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The first special education fellowship of its kind, the Center brings together leaders focused on optimizing learning for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Nationally Recognized Leadership and Faculty
Nationally Recognized Leadership and Faculty
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The Center’s leaders, faculty, and advisory board are comprised of thought leaders in the fields of neuroscience, behavior change, learning, and business.
Evidence-Based Approaches. Real World Settings.
Evidence-Based Approaches. Real World Settings.
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Gain hands-on exposure applying evidence-based approaches in a variety of clinical, school, and community based settings.
Creating New Models Through Innovative Research
Creating New Models Through Innovative Research
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Translate research in neuroscience, behavior change and learning to the classroom through informed teaching practices, curricula, and education policies.

Transforming Special Education Through Leadership Training & Research

How do you optimize learning for children with intellectual disabilities, autism, or brain injuries? At Kennedy Krieger Institute, our doctors, researchers, and behavioral specialists have an unsurpassed understanding of brain development and function in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. With our advances in neuroscience and brain imaging in the last decade, we know more than ever before about memory, executive functions, language development, motor skills, and brain-behavior relationships in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, and how to translate this knowledge to learning in the classroom. As a result, Kennedy Krieger is an award-winning and nationally recognized leader in special education, providing innovative models of education for children with a wide range of learning, emotional, physical, neurological, and developmental disabilities.

Now, we are bringing together our expertise in special education, neuroscience, behavioral science, and neurodevelopmental disabilities to offer the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education fellowship program.

Fellowship Overview 

The Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education fellowship will mentor and train current and future leaders in special education who have an advanced understanding of learning in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and expertise in applying this knowledge to school and classroom settings. Fellows of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education will go on to develop effective teaching practices, learning methods, curricula, and informed educational policies so that children with neurodevelopmental disabilities can receive the best possible education. This fellowship builds on the success of Kennedy Krieger’s internationally recognized professional training program, which has proven highly successful in training thousands of individuals who have gone on to assume leadership positions and make substantial contributions in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities.