Recent Presentations

Balilty, H., and Nowicki, E.A. (2008, March). Typically developing children's interactions with classmates with special needs. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY.

Leschied, A.W., Nowicki, E.A., Rodger, S., & Chiodo, D. (2006, March). "Better to build a child than fix an adult: A report to the Canadian National Crime Prevention Council on the predictors of risk for youth who proceed to the adult justice system and the programs that work to reduce that likelihood". Presented at the research poster exhibition, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.

Specht, J. (2005, October). Panelist at session entitled "Best practices: Promoting integration and social inclusion for children and youth with special needs". Ontario Children and Youth Summit, Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services, Toronto, ON.

*Howell, G., Specht, J., McIssac, S., & Young, G (2006, May). Effects of school transitions on adolescents with learning disabilities: Barriers and facilitators for students using assistive technology accommodations. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), Toronto, ON.

*Noel. K. & Edmunds, A. L. (2006, April). A synthetic-analytic framework for the analysis of precocious writing. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Nowicki, E.A., Dicks, J., & Mantler, K. (2008, May). Subjective group dynamics theory, bias, and counterbias in children's beliefs about classmates of lower or higher ability. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE); Vancouver, BC.

Nowicki, E.A., Clarke, M., Dicks, J., & Palmer, A. (2007, May). Perceptions of racial membership and learning ability: Bias and counterbias in elementary school children. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), Saskatoon, SK.

Nowicki, E.A. (2007, April). Perceptions of same and different race children of lower and higher ability. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Chicago, IL.

*Nowicki, E.A. (2006, May). Bias and counter-bias in elementary school children: Perceptions of gender and learning ability. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), Toronto, ON.

*Nowicki, E.A. (2006, April). Children's attitudes towards girls and boys of lower or higher ability. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Pompeo, M. (2008, May). Improving special education courses in teacher preparation programs - a work in progress. Roundtable sessions presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE) (CCGSE), Vancouver, BC.

Pompeo, M. (2008, April). The "new" sociological imagination for disability studies: A new way of looking at our students with disabilities. Presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Boston, MA.

*Williams. A., Specht, J., & Edmunds, A. (2006, May). Attitudes towards the inclusion of exceptional students: A comparison between preservice teachers and preservice educational assistants. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), Toronto, ON.

*Williams, A., Specht, J., & Edmunds, A. (2006, April) Preservice teachers' attitudes towards inclusion. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Young, G., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E.A. (2008, May). Can the use of assistive technology impact on students with learning disabilities' perceptions of academic achievement and self-esteem? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE); Vancouver, BC.

Young, G., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E.A. (2008, March). The effect of assistive technology on students with learning disabilities' perceptions of academic achievement and self-esteem. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY.

Young, G., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E.A. (2007, November). Assistive technology: One school's success story. Presented at the annual meeting of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO), Mississauga, ON.

Young, G., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E. (2008, June). Can the use of assistive technology impact on students with learning disabilities' perceptions of academic achievement and self-esteem? Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), Vancouver, BC.

Young, G., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E. (2008, March). The effect of assistive technology on students with learning disabilities' perceptions of academic achievement and self-esteem. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). New York, NY.

Specht, J., Servais, M., Kertoy, M., Spencer, T., King, G., Cressman, C., Pompeo, M., & Young, G. (2008, March). School Role Participation: Perspectives of the Child, the Parent, and the Teacher. Presented at the Annual Conference on Disability Studies in Education. New York, NY.

*Young, G. D., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E. (2007, March). The Effect of Assistive Technology on Perceptions of Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.