Impact of OSEP Personnel Development Grants on the APE Profession

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Listen in on this very interesting podcast, where we have a different format where myself and our guest co-host Dr. Garth Tymeson (Emeritus Professor @ UW-La Crosse) had several generations of APE professionals on the podcast for a short time to discuss their experiences with the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) personnel development grant. More specifically, the purpose of this grant was to discuss the significant impacts of the longstanding OSEP personnel development grant programs on APE throughout the US, the current opportunities for higher education faculty and prospective students, and the need for more APE higher education faculty to submit OSEP grant proposals. Dr. Tymeson gathered a group for this podcast that represents 5 “generations” with OSEP ancestry and DNA, who have and will continue to impact the APE profession and countless students with disabilities' lives. These "generations" who had received OSEP funding were represented by: Dr. Ron French (Emeritus Professor @ Texas Woman's University) Dr. Lisa Silliman-French (Emeritus Professor @ Texas Woman's University) Dr. Manny Felix (Professor @ Winona State University) Dr. Brock McMullen (Assistant Professor @ UW-La Crosse) Julia May (Current Master's Scholar @ UW-La Crosse)