Sarah Douglas
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Expertise in early childhood special education, augmentative and alternative communication, and paraeducators
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Sarah Douglas focuses her research on improving the communication skills of children with autism and intellectual disabilities, including school interventions for young children and training strategies for parents, teachers, and paraeducators.
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The Pennsylvania State University: Ph.D., | 2011
Northern Arizona University: M.A, | 2007
Selected Press
Improving Communication Between Parents and Siblings of Special Needs Youth
MSU Today | 2017-08-29
Sarah Douglas, a former special education teacher and principal investigator on the project, developed the training to fill a gap. While online training exists for parents of children with autism, none had been created for the broader population of special needs children with limited verbal abilities.
“That’s why I’m doing this,” said Douglas, assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies. “I want families to feel like they have some control over the future of their child. That they have some control over how to navigate this world that not very many people know how to navigate, and they don’t have to sit around waiting for an expert to come to their house to give them 20 minutes of their time.”...