Special Education Collaborative Activities with Business/Industry

• The Department of Special Education works with Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company to provide the Special Olympics Family Fun Festival to 1,000 individuals with development disabilities each Fall. Approximately 600 Eastern students, 100 of whom were Special Education majors, were involved Fall 2001.
• Special Education faculty serve on the following external advisory Councils:
• Joy Russell: Joyland Access for Independent Living (SAIC) Board and Charleston Recreation Foundation Board.
• Lynn Walz: Coles County Association for Retarded, Human Rights Advisory Committee.
• Rebecca Cook: Resource and Referral Advisory Board
• Kathlene Shank: Special Olympics Area 9 Games Committee
• Kathlene Shank and Christy Hooser: Family Fun Festival ICTC Advisory Committee
• Thomas Sinclair: Natural Ties Advisory Committee