Native American youth experience high rates of sexual abuse — a problem rooted in historical trauma. Until recently, virtually no research had assessed the impact of child sexual abuse prevention programs aimed at protecting this vulnerable population.
To address this disparity, Nebraska educational psychologist Katie Edwards, a leading researcher on interpersonal violence, sought to understand how an evidence-based program to prevent child sexual abuse would be received among Native American communities.
A pair of speech-language pathologists in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders are launching a free monthly support group for young people who stutter beginning Feb. 1.
A Nebraska study exploring children’s self-regulation and motivation as they transition from second to third grade received a boost during the pandemic to gather expanded data.
The Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders is hosting a free virtual screening of the award-winning documentary film, “My Beautiful Stutter”, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021.
Nebraska researchers are working to develop, implement and evaluate resources that provide strategies of coping and reaching out to supportive others for Extension personnel.
The course, “TEAC 431J/831J: Pandemics, Schools, and Helping Meatpacking Communities Recover from COVID-19” may have been created in 2020, but its origins date back much further, and the three faculty members co-teaching the course hope its impacts are equally long-lasting.
In conjunction with UNL’s Combined Campaign for Health and Human Services that kicked off Monday, the CEHS Staff Council is launching the #CEHSgives social media challenge to encourage faculty and staff across the college to give back as they choose.
The CYFS annual report for the 2020 fiscal year, which ran from July 2019 to June 2020, is now available — highlighting efforts to address social, behavioral and educational challenges facing society, both amid and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A recent, combined NAECR Knowledge/Networking event explored ways to initiate and sustain early childhood research partnerships in the age of COVID-19.
