University of Nevada, Reno

IGNITE program expands interdisciplinary preparation serving Nevada’s youngest learners with significant autism & high-intensity needs

IGNITE equips teachers and speech-language pathologists to provide interdisciplinary support for Nevada’s youngest learners ...

Some dogs can pick up hundreds of words—do they learn like children?

Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...

Across cultures, people combine reference frames to orient themselves

When walking through an unfamiliar city, we might rely on different types of directions. Head east out of the train station, ...
BMJ Open

Virtual reality for visions (VRV): a proof-of-concept study examining the development of a new treatment for distressing visual hallucinations in people with psychosis

Introduction Visual Hallucinations (VHs) (seeing things that others do not, or visions) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Services rarely ask about these ...
IEEE

Prior-Guided Dual-Reference Contrastive Learning for Underwater Object Detection

Abstract: Underwater object detection (UOD) plays an important role in the exploitation of marine ecological resources. Different from terrestrial images, the complex underwater environment leads to ...
Associated Press

Nnena Kalu is first artist with a learning disability to win the prestigious Turner Prize

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Nnena Kalu, right, is announced as the winner of ...
The New York Times

With Colorful Sculptures, Artist With a Learning Disability Wins the Turner Prize

Nnena Kalu, who uses cardboard and tape to create her work, received the prestigious art award. By Alex Marshall Reporting from Bradford, England Nnena Kalu, an artist who uses videotape, plastic ...
NPR

50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump

Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...
The Atlantic

Accommodation Nation

Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many American universities, this is no longer true. Professors now ...
The New York Times

Let the Mind-Control Games Begin!

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise. Owen Collumb, a Cybathlon race pilot who has been ...
University of Texas at San Antonio

Adaptive Test Center (ATC) Reference Guide for Students

In order to successfully provide equitable access for all, the Adaptive Test Center (ATC) has certain procedures and rules to help facilitate a seamless and less stressful testing environment. We ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

Cabrillo College’s Stroke and Disability Learning Center celebrates 50 years

APTOS – On Friday, Cabrillo College’s Stroke and Disability Learning Center celebrated its 50th anniversary. Current and former faculty spoke at the event, as did local officials, including U.S. Rep.