Center
for Learning and Leadership
A University Center for
Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)
East Central UniversityThe Center of Continuing Education and Community Services located on the East Central University campus in Ada, OK has been a partner since Oklahoma received its original grant in 1992. East Central University (ECU) is the liaison contact for southeastern Oklahoma.
ECU currently has two projects funded by the Center for Learning and Leadership.
Interdisciplinary Seminar
This project provides interdisciplinary training which acts as a capstone for students who plan to work with people who have developmental disabilities. The two-hour course brings together students from the following disciplines: nursing, social work, education, vocational rehabilitation, and counseling. Through the use of case studies, students learn to work as a "team" in order to identify and provide needed services for the person(s) highlighted. Specifically, students learn the roles of the different helping professionals and their jargon. Evaluations are always positive, but more importantly, students who have graduated and started working in their field of study return to say this course above all others prepared them for their job.Experience College
The goal of this summer camp is to give high school students the confidence that they can attend college. Deciding to attend college for most people is a scary thought, but it is more so if the person has a hearing impairment, visual problem, mobility concern, etc. This camp, therefore, allows high school students with developmental disabilities come and experience what it would be like to attend college. The students live in the dorm, eat in the cafeteria, and attend classes designed to help them in college such as study skills, time management, library research, etc.Contact:
Rick Wetherill, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for Continuing Education and Community Service
East Central University
580.310.5455
rwethrll@mailclerk.ecok.edu
University of TulsaThe University of Tulsa (TU) is a private, independent, doctoral-degree-granting institution whose mission reflects these core values: excellence in scholarship, dedication to free inquiry, integrity of character, and commitment to humanity. TU provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional education of the highest quality in the arts, humanities, sciences, business, education, engineering, law, nursing, and applied health sciences.
The university campus lies two miles east of downtown Tulsa, OK; a handsome, vigorous city in a metropolitan area of over half a million people, set among the hills and lakes of northeastern Oklahoma's "Green Country." In its rich urban environment, TU offers a diversity of learning experiences, a balance between career preparation and liberal education, teaching and research, and endeavors to instill in its students an understanding that stature as an individual and value as a member of society depend upon continual learning.
Dr. Judy Berry is a professor of psychology specializing in developmental and family psychology. She is the author (with Michael Hardman) of Lifespan Perspectives on the Family and Disability, Her research centers on parental stress in dual-earner families and in families that include a child with disabilities or chronic illness, and she developed (with Warren Jones) the Parental Stress Scale. She has received a number of advocacy awards for her work with children and families, including the Tarbel Achievement Award and the Medicine Wheel Award.
Dr. Berry is currently collaborating with our Family Support Partnership to produce a booklet titled Supported Families, that will highlight the use of the Oklahoma Family Support Principles, illustrated by success stories.
Contact:
Judy Berry, Ph.D.
University of Tulsa
918.631.2834
Judy-Berry@utulsa.edu
The Center for Learning and Leadership operates this OUHSC Web Site.
Please send comments, questions, or error reports to the webmaster.
Every effort will be made to update the information contained on these pages as necessary. However, it is the responsibility
of the user to determine that he or she is relying on the most current version of any particular information.
Copyright © 2002 The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, All Rights Reserved
University of Oklahoma Disclaimers University of Oklahoma Policy Statement
University of Oklahoma Publication Guidlines