Individuals with low-incidence disabilities are between the ages of 3 and 21.
Federal law requires that schools provide free appropriate education to such students.
The ECU Department of Special Education in the School of Education received the grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. He said that he and Dr. Melissa Engleman, a professor in special education, wrote the grant as a way to help bring more trained teachers into the field. Powers and Engleman will co-direct the program. They will use the money for courses and to assist graduate students who are seeking master's degrees in the low-incidence disabilities field. The students will study rehabilitation processes, physical education, sign language and related technologies.