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Louisiana Low Incidence Disabilities Consortium
(LA-LIDC)

Description of Project:

Goal

To establish a sustainable consortium to increase Louisiana’s capacity to make high quality, performance-based initial and advanced teacher education programs accessible statewide.

Vision

The Louisiana Low Incidence Disabilities Consortium ensures that all educators are continuously provided effective preparation and professional development so students with low incidence disabilities (students who are/have Significant Disabilities, Blind/Visually Impaired/ Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Deaf-Blind) have access to high quality education.

Mission

The Louisiana Low Incidence Disabilities Consortium is a collaborative partnership among educational agencies, organizations, families, and other state and national resources. The LA-LIDC:

• Exerts leadership to provide performance-based, high-quality teacher preparation and professional development in response to field-based needs.
• Utilizes innovative, dynamic multi-media technology to ensure statewide accessibility of coursework and professional development.
• Ensures students are engaged in meaningful, quality learning.
• Facilitates development, storage, and retrieval of educational materials for teacher preparation and professional development.
• Uses adult learning communities to develop teacher leaders to serve as instructional mentors.
• Provides an infrastructure to ensure continuous improvement
  and sustainability.

Funding Source:

Louisiana Department of Education

Length of project: 

June 1, 2007  to  May 31, 2010 (3 years)

Total funded amount: 

$3,000,000

Principal Investigator(s) (PI):

Kate E. Reynolds, Ph.D. & William Sharpton, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Habilitative Services

Other participants if any and their relationship to grant/contract:

• Louisiana Tech University (Ruston, LA) – In-state collaborative partner
• The Human Development Center of Louisiana State University/Health
  Sciences Center (New Orleans, LA) – In-state collaborative partner

Links to official website

http://www.lalidc.org

Link to Marratech E-Learning Login

http://lalidc.uno.edu

Contact information:

Project Manager
Joan Guillory (lalidc@uno.edu)
(504) 280-1397

Principle Investigators
Kate E. Reynolds (kreynold@uno.edu)
William Sharpton (wsharpto@uno.edu)