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William Penrod

Visual Disabilities students impress with research at biennial conference

September 13, 2022 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Gaylen Kapperman has attended countless professional conferences during his nearly half-century in academia. But the professor emeritus in the Department of Special and Early Education’s Visual Disabilities program is hard-pressed to remember a meeting room fuller than the one he encountered this

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Bill Penrod, Ximena Burgin researching Safe Toddles Pediatric Belt Cane efficacy

April 13, 2022 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, SEED

When Hunter College instructor Grace Ambrose-Zaken needed someone to research the efficacy of a device she helped to invent for children with visual disabilities, she knew where to turn. “She only sent out grant proposals to people she had known for a

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