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SPIES for Parents Staff
Sarah Rule, Project Director
Robert Cook, Project Manager
Barbara Lancelot, Project Coordinator
Heather Mariger, Technology Specialist
Kay Seo, Research Assistant
Connie Panter, Office Administration
and Sales
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Sarah Rule
Project
Director
July 1999 - July 2003
Sarah ("Sallie") Rule was director of the SPIES
Outreach Project. She is Director of the Center for
Persons with Disabilities (CPD), Professor of Special
Education, and Adjunct Professor of Family and Human
Development at Utah State University. She has 30 years
of experience in serving children, youth and families
in personnel preparation and curriculum development.
Sarah's thoughts about Strategies for Intervention in
Everyday Settings are based on her belief that everything
that adults do with young children (and perhaps everything
that they do in front of them) teaches something.
Research with an earlier intervention curriculum indicated
that preschool teachers used many of the strategies
illustrated in SPIES. However, they weren't necessarily
aware of how to use them to help children develop specific
abilities. Most adults who know a child well are aware
of specific skills that would help that child in everyday
living. Sarah hopes that SPIES will give adults a useful
framework for planning how to teach those skills. Knowing
how busy adults are in balancing work, home and (with
luck) even leisure, she hopes SPIES will be easy to
use in teaching and learning.
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Robert Cook
Project Manager
July 2000 - July 2002
Robert earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from
Ball State University. His emphasis of study was in
marriage and family issues. He is especially interested
in nontraditional families and children with chronic
illnesses. He has worked extensively with emotionally
and behaviorally disabled children. Robert brought to
this Project Coordinator position 20 years of experience
in mental disability issues. He initiated, developed,
and maintained numerous projects in his career. He has
published articles and made presentations related to
the study of severe mental illness.
Robert committed himself to maintaining the SPIES project
as an up-to-date program designed to help educators
and other professionals enhance their ability to work
with preschool children who have special needs. Robert's
goals for SPIES were to expand its accessibility in
two areas. First, by increasing its presence on the
World Wide Web and second, by developing a parent/caretaker
focused SPIES curriculum with an emphasis on delivery
of training and information directly to parents through
the World Wide Web.
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Barbara Lancelot
Project Coordinator
July 1999 - December 1999
Barbra Lancelot, M. Ed. is a doctoral
student in Early Childhood Education, at Erikson Institute
of Loyola University, Chicago. She recieved her Masters'
training at Erikson Institute and worked for more
than ten years as a Parent and Infant Educator, program
manager and child development diagnostician in hospital
and community settings in Chicago. As a researcher
and writer, she has prepared training materials on
play and literacy, program management, child and family
assessment, drug exposed children, parent-child interaction,
and developmental intervention
From 1990 - 99, Barbra worked as a consultant
in Early Childhood and Special Education in Illinois,
Wisconsin and Utah. She has provided training in infant
and preschool assessment, family-centered services
for children with disabilities, and assessment of
children with various developmental risk factors,
and child development guidance to adolescent mothers
and their children. She has been an instructor in
early childhood and special education in eight colleges
in the Midwest and Utah.
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Heather
Mariger
Technology
Specialist
September 1999 - July 2003
Heather Mariger was the Web-Developer and Technology
Specialist for Project SPIES. She came to the Center
for Persons with Disabilities through an unusual route.
Classically trained in the Culinary Arts and Hospitality
she has worked and studied across both the US and
Europe. While working on her Masters Degree at Kansas
State University, she became interested in the possibilities
that the Internet promised for higher education. Her
new interests led her to Utah State where she is currently
working on her Doctorate in Instructional Technology
and helping to develop and adapt Project SPIES for
the World Wide Web.
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Kay
Seo
Research
Assistant
January 2003 - July 2003
Before coming to Utah State University,
Kay worked as Corporate Administrator at The Platinum
Group, an investment bank in New York City. Kay has
two Master's degrees, one in Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages at Old Dominion University, Virginia,
and the other in International Politics in East Asia
at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. She is currently
completing a doctoral degree in Instructional Technology
at Utah State University.
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Connie Panter
Office Administration and Sales
July 1999 - July 2002
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