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AUCD Experts

Meghan Burke, PhD

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Contact Information:
1310 S. 6th Street , Champaign, IL, 61820
217-300-1226
Leadership:
Associate LEND Director
Discipline Coordinators:
Special Education
Discipline(s):
Education/Special Education
AUCD Council Membership:
No Council Membership
Vita/Bio:
Service:
Linked Projects

Project Family IMPACT (Individualization, Mobility, Poverty, Adversity, Culture, & Trauma)
Office of Special Education Programs
Improving transition outcomes for youth with autism through parent advocacy training: A multi-state randomized controlled trial
Project Civic LeAdS: Enhancing Civic Engagement of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families and Students with Disabilities: Legislative Advocacy
Testing a family service navigator program for low-resourced families of young children with autism spectrum disorder.
Linked Products

Training parents of youth with autism to advocate for adult disability services (in press)
Working with parents (in press)
Understanding the contextual risk factors among students with disabilities in the juvenile justice system
Caregiving roles of siblings of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A systematic review: Systematic review of sibling roles
Improvements in proxy individualized education program meeting participation among Latino parents

Special education advocacy among culturally and linguistically diverse families
Understanding decision- making among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their siblings
A review of supports and services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families in the United States: Past and Present Context Impacting Future Research, Practice and Policy
Non-caregiving roles of siblings of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Examining differences in empowerment, special education knowledge, and family-school partnership among Latino and White families of children with autism spectrum disorder
Comparing the support needs of parents of adults with Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, and cerebral palsy.
The perceptions of school involvement of parents of students with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic literature review.
Exploring the effects of a sibling leadership program for adult siblings of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Exploring the perspectives of parents and siblings toward future planning for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Exploring the special education advocacy process according to families and advocates.
Preparing leaders to engage in dialogue with diverse stakeholders.
Characteristics of secondary age students who participate in school sponsored extracurricular activities.
Using University-Parent Training and Information Center Collaborations to Improve Systemic Advocacy
Parent leadership and civic engagement: Suggestions for the next IDEA reauthorization
Practical concerns about the research- to-policy gap in special education
Examining differences in empowerment, special education knowledge, and family-school partnership among Latino and White families of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Families and Professionals: Trusting Partnerships in General and Special Education
Exploring accessibility in restaurants in Urbana-Champaign
Self-efficacy of providers in early intervention and visual impairments
From individual to systemic advocacy: Parents as change agents. Exceptionality
Facilitators and barriers to positive special education experiences and health among Latino families of children with disabilities: Two systematic literature reviews
The effectiveness of special education training programs for parents of children with disabilities
Who lives where and why? Residential changes across adulthood in persons with Down syndrome
The research-to-policy gap: A systematic review of special education research
Families and Professionals: Trusting Partnerships in General and Special Education
Parent and sibling roles in decision making with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Exploring patterns between advocacy and well-being among parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The research-to-policy gap: A systematic review of special education research.
Exploring patterns between school perceptions, child behavior, and maternal well-being among Latina mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Development, feasibility, and acceptability of a nationally relevant parent training to improve service access during the transition to adulthood for youth with ASD
Compound caregiving: Toward a research agenda
Post-high school transition outcomes for young adults with Down syndrome
Advocacy experiences among rural parents of children with disabilities
Exploring the advocacy process and its products among parents of children with disabilities
Transition planning: Knowledge and preferences of Latinx families of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The efficacy and impact of a special education legislative advocacy program among parents of children with disabilities
Exploring the advocacy of military families of children with disabilities
Examining the effectiveness of a legislative advocacy program for parents of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The role of parental advocacy in addressing service disparities for transition-aged youth on the autism spectrum
Empowerment: Search for dignity and quality of life for people with disabilities and their families
Experiences of empowerment and quality of family life.
Transition: What can science tell us?
Juggling multiple caregiving roles.
Special Needs Trusts-How they work and what has changed.