In Season 3, Episode 6 of ACCESSIBLE: The Podcast, Dr. Meghan Burke describes the tremendous impact strong relationships between families and professionals can have on individuals with disabilities.
PODCAST: https://linktree.com/accessiblepod
TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/3yR7Q9u
Burke, a professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University, is a widely sought-after lecturer and researcher in advocacy, families and siblings, and disability policy. She has published more than 130 articles in scholarly journals.
After serving as a special education teacher and observing the transformative power family-professional partnerships have, Burke has worked to develop advocacy programming for families as a researcher, empowering and educating families to navigate the complex landscape of disability services.
Accessible is a podcast that opens the door to disability leaders and their ideas and is hosted by George Gotto, director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Institute for Human Development (UMKC-IHD), and Amelia Reighard, UMKC-IHD’s director of Program Development.
The University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Institute for Human Development is the federally designated University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) for the state of Missouri. It is a member of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) and one of 67 UCEDDs located in every state and United States territory. As an applied research and training center for human services at UMKC, the IHD reports to the Office of the Provost and serves as a bridge between the university and community.
