Mary Ndande, a doctoral candidate in special education and social work and member of the CREATE team, is the recipient of the Texas Council for Exceptional Children (TCEC) Research Incentive Award. Ndande was honored for her proposal to examine special education teachers’ knowledge of instructional and behavioral-management strategies to address students with disabilities who are substance abusers. Ndande received a $500 grant to support the research and will present her findings at the 2011 TCEC Conference.
