Kate Ascetta

Assistant Professor

Kate Ascetta is the Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (CT UCEDD) where she also coordinates the technical assistance for institutes of higher education faculty through the Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Center (ECIPC). She is an assistant professor in public health sciences at UConn’s School of Medicine.

Her scholarship addresses how access to quality teacher preparation programs and professional development can strengthen the early childhood intervention workforce. She is skilled in program of study development within institutions for higher education. Additionally, she has established strong community partnerships that leverage perspectives from traditionally underrepresented groups to develop systems of change done with, rather than done to, a particular population.

Kate earned her undergraduate degree from SUNY Geneseo. She earned her MA in Early Childhood Special Education from Bank Street College of Education and her PhD in Special Education at the University of Oregon. Before pursing her PhD, Kate worked for over a decade in variety of early childhood intervention settings with young children and their families.