Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human disAbility - George Mason University
About Us

The Kellar Institute for Human DisAbilities (KIHd) is an interdisciplinary campus-based organization focusing on improving the lives and productivity of children and adults with disabilities. KIHd combines the resources of the university with local, state, regional, national, public, and private sector agencies and organizations to develop products, services, and programs for persons with disabilities.

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Farewell to Tom Scruggs and Margo Mastropieri at CEC

Farewell to Tom Scruggs and Margo Mastropieri at CEC

April 14, 2014

It was a grand farewell in a hotel ballroom in Philadelphia last week when the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) hosted a 2014 tribute by researchers, professors, advisors, colleagues and friends of award-winning Tom Scruggs and Margo Mastropieri from George Mason University. Maybe you now use or hope to use their proven strategies to improve your instruction in these areas of their specialization:

  • Learning and memory
  • Cognitive strategies
  • Literacy strategies
  • Inclusion strategies for students with disabilities and their peers
  • Science education for students with and without disabilities
  • Social studies education for students with and without disabilities
  • Quantitative and qualitative research synthesis
  • Learning and behavioral disorders

Read more on the AIM-VA blog posted by June Behrmann.