East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Autism Education Center was honored with the John Wilson Memorial Award of Excellence during the Pennsylvania Council for Exceptional Children (PaCEC) annual conference in October. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, faculty were not able to attend, and so on December 9 a small ceremony was held on ESU\u2019s campus. Dr. Gina Scala, professor and chair of the special education and rehabilitation department, represented PaCEC and presented the award to Dr. Rachel Wolf, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders and director of ESU\u2019s Autism Education Center, and Dr. Rachel Chapman, coordinator of the ESU Autism Education Center.<\/p>\n
The award, named in memory of Dr. John Wilson, a lifelong special education professional and exceptional member of PaCEC, recognizes an educator, parent, organization or institution that represents the contributions of Dr. Wilson, educating children and youth with exceptionalities and\/or gifts and talents.<\/p>\n
ESU\u2019s Autism Education Center was selected as this year\u2019s award recipient because of the extensive programing and resources the center continued to offer during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cMany places were only able to do the very minimum during such challenging times,\u201d Dr. Scala said. \u201cESU\u2019s Autism Education Center continued to be a leader in engagement. They have earned this honor.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information about ESU\u2019s Autism Education Center visit esu.edu\/autism-education-center<\/a> or contact Chapman at (570) 422-7950 or email rchapman@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESU\u2019s Autism Education Center was honored with the John Wilson Memorial Award of Excellence during the Pennsylvania Council for Exceptional Children (PaCEC) annual conference in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":21359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21361,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357\/revisions\/21361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}