Human Development Institute

Staff

  • Becky Slone

    Becky Slone

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    Quality Early Care and Education TA Specialist Child Care Aware Phone: (606) 878-4788 Email: bslon3@uky.edu Responsibilities: Guide and support TA processes for Quality Coaches and STAR Raters using recommended practices. Ensure reliability across all four ERS tools with Regional QCs and Raters. Experiences: 36 years in early care and education field as teacher/administrator/trainer, mostly in…

  • Rebekah Banner

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    Evaluation Analyst Evaluation Phone: Email: rebekah.banner@uky.edu Responsibilities: Assist in devleopment of reports and data visualization; coordination of data collection; data transcription and management Experiences: Previous experience unrelated to field Reason: Research: Interests: Spending time with family, baking, reading

  • Luke O’Hara

    Luke O’Hara

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    Data Manager Evaluation Phone: Email: luke.ohara@uky.edu Responsibilities: Performance measurement, formative evaluation, reporting, infographics,  dashboarding  Experiences:  Reason: Research: Interests: Fiction, Baseball, Visual Art, Writing

  • Daniel Lee

    Daniel Lee

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    Illustration Coordinator Kentucky Alternate Assessment Project (KAAP) Phone: Email: dflee2@uky.edu Responsibilities: Creating & editing illustrations for alternate assessments Experiences: Sketch artist for an outdoor product management company. BFA in painting. K-12 Art Ed initial teaching certification. Lab technician. Various commissioned illustrations & exhibitions. Reason: Research: Interests: Music (Vibraphone, Bass, Flute…), Language ( Japanese, Gregg Shorthand…)…

  • Beth Potter

    Beth Potter

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    Deputy Executive Director for Admistration HDI Core Administration, Employment initiatives, ASL Interpreter Team Email: Beth.Potter@uky.edu Beth Potter serves as Deputy Executive Director for Administration at the University of Kentucky Human Development Institute (HDI), where she is a member of the Executive Leadership Team and provides strategic leadership for an institute of more than 250 staff…

  • Arline Wilson

    Arline Wilson

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    Interviewer/Program Coordinator Community Quality National Core Indicators Phone: Email: awilson@uky.edu Responsibilities: Training, Interviewing, Data collection Experiences: Reason: Research: Interests:

  • Stephanie Meredith, PhD

    Stephanie Meredith, PhD

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    Lettercase Medical Outreach Director LEND faculty Phone: (770) 310-3885 Email: stephanie.meredith@uky.edu Responsibilities: Creating and dessiminating information about genetic conditions and building relationships between national leaders in the disability and medical communities; creating the KentuckyWorks website and other related printed and online materials. Experiences: Author of nationally-recommended “Understanding a Down Syndrome Diagnosis” and other diagnosis books…

  • Walt Bower PhD

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    Preservice Training Coordinator University Center for Excellence (Core) Phone: 859-257-3360 Email: walt.bower@uky.edu Responsibilities: Coordinate the family mentorship program for trainees; Faculty of record for HDI 603 interdisciplinary supports practicum; Provide orientation to new research assistants; Develop and implement a series of six to eight seminars covering various topics related to developmental disabilities; Coordinate and supervise…