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February 7, 2000
Infante Thompson PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
Nina Harris and Mamie McKenzie, teachers in the Kennedy Center’s Susan Gray School, presented “Storytelling: A Make and Take for Your Preschool Classroom” at the annual meeting of the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children, held Dec. 9-11, 1999, in Washington, D.C.
Teachers Lisa Archer, Kristen Koenigsberger and Michelle Wyatt presented “Embedding Educational Goals into Circle Time.”
Susan Gray School coordinator Amy Harris-Solomon, with Cripe, Mullis, Jones and Lindeman, presented a workshop “Embedding Interventions within Family-Identified Natural Environments.”
Ettore F. Infante, dean of the College of Arts and Science, participated on a panel discussing “Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation: Past, present and future” during the Joint Mathematics Meetings, held Jan. 19-22 in Washington, D.C.
Serge Lawrencenko, senior lecturer in mathematics, and Michael Plummer, professor of mathematics, presented “Irreducible Triangulations of Pseudosurfaces.” Plummer also presented “Neighborhood Unions and Critical Graphs” with Hikoe Enonomato (Keio University) and Akira Saito (Nihon University) during the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
Walburga von Raffler-Engel, professor of linguistics, emerita, has contributed an invited commentary on “Media Wrongly Accused” to the spring 2000 issue of Global Media News.
Travis Thompson, professor of psychology, special education and psychiatry and Kennedy Center director, has co-written with David Felce (University of Cardiff, Wales) and Frank Symons (University of North Carolina) a book chapter “Behavioral Observation: Assumptions, Principles and Strategies” for the book Behavioral Observation: Technology and Applications in Developmental Disabilities, which they also co-edited. Thompson co-authored “Architecture and Behavior of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Observational Methods and Housing Policies” with Mark Egli, Kennedy Center research associate, and Robinson (University of Minnesota).
Jon Tapp, Kennedy Center director of computer services, and Tedra Walden, professor of psychology and Kennedy Center investigator, contributed two chapters, “Procoder: A System for the Collection and Analysis of Observational Data from Videotape” and “Observational Software for Laptop Computers and Optical Bar Code Time Wands.” Tapp was also co-author with Smith and Steve Warren, a former Vanderbilt professor now at the University of Kansas of “Analysis of Early Communication and Language Intervention Practices Using Observational Technology.”
Paul Yoder, research professor of special education, Kennedy Center investigator and director of Kennedy Center Quantitative and Observational Methodology, and Irene Feurer, research assistant professor of psychiatry and coordinator of Quantitative and Observational Methodology, contributed “Qualifying the Magnitude of Sequential Association between Events or Behaviors.”
