A Professor of Special Education at Boise State University since 1987, Dr. Hourcade
received a Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Missouri. His primary areas
of professional emphasis include severe disabilities, physical disabilities, and
cognitive impairment. Within the department Dr. Hourcade typically teaches a variety of
courses and in 2005 he was honored as the Student’s Choice Outstanding Faculty Member
from the College of Education by the Associated Students of Boise State University. A
longtime member of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Developmental
Disabilities, Dr. Hourcade has served on the Board of Directors of that Division since
1998. Beginning in 2001, Dr. Hourcade additionally assumed the role of Publications Chair
for the division, which includes supervision of the journal Education and Training in
Developmental Disabilities, the division’s print publications, including the Prism
series, and the division’s video offerings, including the award-winning Growing Up With
Autism by Taylor and David Crowe.

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Using Clicker 5 to Enhance Emergent Literacy in Young Learners (with Howard P. Parette, Jenny M. Dinelli, and Nichole M. Boeckmann), Special and Early Childhood Education Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)

Best practices in emergent literacy instruction for young children acknowledge and facilitate the smooth progression...

 

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Using Microsoft® PowerPoint™ to Support Emergent Literacy Skill Development for Young Children At-Risk or Who Have Disabilities (with Howard Phillips Parette, Nichole M. Boeckmann, and Craig Blum), Special and Early Childhood Education Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)

In the 21st century, “Digital Children” (Edyburn, 2002) are growing up in a world rich...

 

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Use of Writing with Symbols 2000 Software to Facilitate Emergent Literacy Development (with Howard P. Parette and Nichole Boeckmann), Special and Early Childhood Education Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)

This paper outlines the use of the Writing with Symbols 2000 software to facilitate emergent...