Dana Lattin, MS.Ed.

Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities
Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
University of Kansas
1200 Sunnyside Avenue
3111 Haworth
Lawrence, KS 66045-7534
 
Phone: 785-864-1177
Secondary Phone: 785-864-4295
Email: [email protected]
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Last Updated: June 17, 2019

Dana Lattin
 

Leadership Administrative Staff: Research Project Director
Primary Activity Coordinators: Distance Learning
Research Director
Discipline Coordinators: Education
Special Education
 
Discipline(s): Education: General
Education/Special Education
 
AUCD Council Membership: No Council Membership
 
Research: secondary transition, professional development, training, postsecondary education, college, inclusive, employment
Education: secondary transition, professional development, training, postsecondary education, college, inclusive, employment
Service: fundraising, foundation, grantwriting

Vita/Bio

Dana Lattin is the Research Project Director at the University of Kansas Center on Developmental Disabilities and Beach Center on Disability. She directs the Transition Coalition (www.transitioncoalition.org) and the University of Kansas Transition to Postsecondary Education (KU TPE, www.tpe.ku.edu). The Transition Coalition provides online, face-to-face, and hybrid professional development, technical assistance, and resources for secondary transition stakeholders across the country as part of the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT). For over 20 years Lattin has developed professional development through a variety of formats in order to enhance practice to improve outcomes for young adults with disabilities. KU TPE is an inclusive 2-year certificate college program for students with intellectual disability. Lattin provides overall program direction and day-to-day management, collaboration with KU units, instructor training, and program evaluation and sustainability. Ms. Lattin holds an M.S. Ed in Special Education with an emphasis on secondary transition from the University of Kansas and has co-authored articles, book chapters, web applications, and professional development interventions, and has presented at numerous national conferences on topics related to transition and professional development, as well as inclusive postsecondary education for people with intellectual disability.