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1st Place: Trenton Newby Completed 385.32 hrs (183%) complete hours of the 210 required for the Fall II 2022 semester. He has no absences this semester. He has done an amazing job stepping up to the challenges of this semester’s practicum.  He has also shown his...

The Aggie ACHIEVE students and staff helped prepare a turkey and cooked recipes during their independent living seminar. Everyone helped contribute to the pot luck and they celebrated inclusion with their Aggie ACHIEVEMates.  

PATHS Program students participated in two art projects this semester. The first one was in October in awareness of Hispanic Heritage month, where students learned to work with crepe paper to make paper flowers. The November art project gave students the opportunity...

Kathryn Kaimana is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with a concentration in Special Education at Texas A&M University from Burleson, Texas.
When I was looking at colleges, I was having a really hard time. All the schools that interested me were either too far away or an Ivy League that I knew I just didn’t have the grades for. After talking to one of my friends about how discouraged I was becoming, they encouraged me to apply to Texas A&M.

Adonay Mendoza was born in Houston, Texas but raised in El Salvador. His father brought he and his brother back to the United States to get a sound education at the beginning of his 6th grade year. He remembers having a hard time understanding the new content and teachers because of the language barrier and previous lack of adequate education.

The CEHD Faculty Advisory Council (FAC) has completed its search process for the Director of Faculty Development, and Dr. Dalun Zhang has accepted the position beginning September 1, 2019. (Dr. Zhang formerly served as chair of FAC, and so recused himself from the review process.)

The Center on Disability and Development at Texas A&M University, in partnership with Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Education Agency, invites you to attend the inaugural “Gear Up -Texas” Statewide Capacity Building Conference, in Austin, TX on September 23-24, 2019.

Armando Bernal has taught special education for the past three years. In August, he will begin a resource special education teaching position for fifth graders in Conroe ISD. He plans on becoming a board certified behavior analyst and eventually join a behavioral clinic where he can teach more individuals who are in need of support and independence.