Lisa Bowman-Perrott, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Affiliated Faculty Member with the Center on Disability and Development at Texas A&M University  is working with two new grants and collaborating with UTSA and Baylor University.

Project LEER Grant 
In March, Dr. Bowman-Perrott, along with colleagues at University of Texas at San Antonio and Baylor University conducted a professional development session for charter school teachers titled 'Multi-tiered Systems of Support for English Learners/Emergent Bilinguals with Disabilities in the Inclusive Classroom.'

Project DIVERSE Grant 
Drs. Eslami (Bilingual and English as a Second Language Division) and Bowman-Perrott (Special Education Division) have now recruited all five of their Project DIVERSE doctoral scholars at Texas A&M. Project DIVERSE is a doctoral training grant in collaboration with Baylor University and the University of Texas at San Antonio.