CT LEND Fellows’ Projects 2018-2019
Karen Bassilakis: Service Delivery Models of School Based Speech Language Pathologists in Connecticut
Chris Blake: Learning the Impact of a Disability on the Person/Child/Family
Thomas Cosker Jr.: Inclusion in Recreation in CT
Khadijah Cyril: Trends of Implicit Biases about Disabilities among College Students Over the Past Few Years
Mike Duff: Social Inclusion
Aniella Fignon: Juveniles with Intellectual Disability in the Justice System
Heather Kwolek: Emergency Responders’ Training in Working with Individuals with Disabilities
Michelle Levine: Educational Assessment and Identification Procedures to Classify Students as Emotionally Disturbed in the State of Connecticut
Penni Petzold & Leona Adamczyk: Leadership Training for Parents by PTIs
Erica Scarpati: Early Intervention Specialty Programs in the United States for Children with Hearing Loss and Co-Occurring Disabilities
Natalie Silvia & Michael Figueiredo: Training and Confidence Levels of Interdisciplinary Professional Practice in the Northeast Region of the United
States in Providing Information to Mothers about Congenital Cytomegalovirus
Danielle U. Stern: Parent Perspective On Involvement And Training At Planning And Placement Team Meetings
Taylor Tarka: Confidence Levels of Recent Graduates in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Providing Assessment and Intervention for School-aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Loren B Thompson: Perceived Confidence from Participation in the Connecticut LEND Program
Yair Voliovitch: Parent Stress Prior To An Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Evaluation: A DBPNet Study
Elena Woodard: Mothers and Substance Use Services
CT LEND Fellows’ Projects 2017-2018
Maria J. Avitia: Differences in Self-Efficacy Between Students with Dyslexia and Those Without After Preforming an Academic vs. Creativity Task
Shawna Bush: Autism and Substance Use
Julianne Cappadora: Communication Sciences and Disorders: Early Intervention Education Data Report for New England

Julia Garrick: Hearing Loss in Early Intervention
Molly Leahy and Torri Ann Woodruff: Caregiver Exposure to Alternative and Augmentative Communication for Children with ASD and Limited Verbal Output
Rosalie Lyons: An Exploration of Disability Training Opportunities in Nationally Accredited Genetic Counseling Programs and the Implications of Disability Training on Reported Student Preparedness in Working With Individuals with Disabilities and Their Families
Cassandra Marrero: Cultural Barriers Latino Families Encounter in the Hartford Public School System
Meghan Ramsay: Student Led IEPs
Melody Rojas: Team Approach Within the Outpatient Clinical Setting?
Melissa Smith: Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Katie Straka: Perception of Medical Care After Transition

Shannon Wannagot: Listening Environments for Children in Public School Classrooms

CT LEND Fellows’ Projects 2016-2017
Ashley Bean: Family Involvement in Augmentative and Alternative
Communication Intervention
MaryKate Bisaillon: An Examination of Hearing Health Awareness in
Group Home Facilities
MaryKate Bisaillon: An Examination of Hearing Health Awareness in
Group Home Facilities
Hannah Brown: Team Survey in School Psychology
James Cariddi: Evidence-Based Joint-Attention Interventions for
Children with Autism
Olivia DeWald and Casey Turovac: Cytomegalovirus Awareness amongst Child Care
Providers in the United States
Ashley Mills: Examining Connecticut Juvenile Review Boards’ Case Management
of Youth with Disabilities
Chelsea Pansé: Team Survey in Early Intervention
Amanda Tchernotzkas: Resource Brochure for the Primary Care NP: Educational
Laws & Regulations
CT LEND Fellows’ Projects 2010-2011
Melissa Collier-Meek and Scott McCarthy: Interdisciplinary Practice Related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in Connecticut
Laura Czernik: Understanding Speech-language Pathology and Occupational Therapy Co-treatments: Professional and Parent Perspectives
Kate Engelhardt: Asperger’s Disorder in Secondary Environments: A Needs Assessment
Carrie-Ellen Flanagan: Neonatal Follow-up
Carlie Hershgordon: Family Faculty Guide
Megan Krell: Creating Supports for Adolescent Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities
Aisling Meier: Creation of an Audiological Book for Children
Kathryn Min: Informal and Formal Community Supports for Parents: An Assessment of Information Sharing in Connecticut Schools
Christine Sullivan: The National Landscape of Interdisciplinary Practices for Infants and Young Children with Disabilities
Annetta Troche: Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorders Care Needs Among the Health Care Professionals in the Intensive Care Units of One Connecticut Hospital
Christina Turner: Nutrition Education for Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities
CT LEND Fellows’ Projects 2009-2010
Katie Gritter: Training and Ongoing Technical Assistance in Interventions for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Rose Jaffery: Using a Home-school Log to Facilitate Communication Between Educators and Parents
Laura Kern: Working with the Law: Classroom Placement
Erin Klonoski: Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Retrospective Medical Records Review
Wayne Miller: Simplified SOP Guide for Parents
Dwight Norwood: Use of Hospice and Palliative Care by People with Developmental Disabilities in New England
Christine Raymond: Autism Screening by Connecticut Pediatricians
Mamta Saxena: Manual for Organizing and Evaluating Sibling Support Programs
Linda Thorpe: A Search for Significance
Kacie Wittke: Interdisciplinary Training in Graduate Schools at the University of Connecticut
David Song Zheng: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in China
CT LEND Fellows’ Projects 2009
Meredith Fetch: Audiological Assessment of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Emily Hayden: Out and About: A Community Recreation Model for Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Pilot Project
Jennifer Hehl: Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study of Their Surgical Experiences
Ashley Loria: Parent Perspectives on Their Children with Autism
Heather Miller-Kuhaneck: Siblings of Children with ASDs in Connecticut
Agnes Nalepa: Health Care for Individuals with Disabilities
Kathleen O’Mahoney: Disability and Family-centered Care Curriculum of LEND-Participating Graduate Schools at the University of Connecticut