Special Education Collaborative Activities with
Business/Industry
- The Department of Special Education works with
Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company to provide the Special Olympics
Family Fun Festival to 1,000 individuals with development disabilities
each Fall.
Approximately 650 Eastern students, 200 of whom were Special
Education majors, were involved Fall 2003.
- Special Education faculty serve on the following
external advisory Councils
Rebecca Cook:
Resource and Referral Advisory Board
Kathlene Shank:
Special Olympics Area 9 Games Committee
Kathlene Shank and Christy Hooser:
Family Fun Festival ICTC Advisory Committee
Thomas
Sinclair: Natural Ties Advisory
Committee
Thomas
Sinclair serves on the Graywood Foundation Human
Rights Board.
Joy
Russell serves on the SAIL (Soyland Access for Independent
Living) Board; the Charleston Parks and Recreation Board;
and the Regional Office of Education #11 Local Professional Development
Committee (LPDC).