(December 16, 2008) Phil Parette, the Illinois State University Kara A. Peters Endowed Chair in Assistive Technology, director of the SEAT Center, and professor of Special Education, is the 2009 recipient of the Illinois State University Outstanding University Researcher Award. The award recognizes faculty whose research is acknowledged at the national or international level for its quality and contribution to the profession or discipline.
Parette will formally be presented the award at the Founder's Day Convocation on Thursday, February 19, 2009.
Howard P. Parette arrived at Illinois State in 2003 having been appointed Kara Peters Endowed Chair in Assistive Technology and director of the Special Education Assistive Technology (SEAT) Center in the Department of Special Education. Completing his Ed.D. in 1982 from the University of Alabama, Parette has held appointments at Louisiana Tech University, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Southeast Missouri State University. Over the past 20 years, his research has focused on assistive technology (AT) service delivery issues for persons with disabilities, with an emphasis on assistive technology, decision-making, and cultural and family issues. He co-authored two textbooks, and served as an editor or co-author for many monographs and training materials that have been nationally distributed. Parette was the founding editor of Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits, a free, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, Web-based journal that is the only outcomes-based AT journal in the field. He is currently facilitating the development and publication of a series of companion monographs presenting research-based practices and recommendations.
Parette has also vigorously disseminated his scholarship through presentations at 78 international meetings, 16 national conferences, 48 regional/state meetings, and 44 workshops. Content and development work in the areas of culture and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) decision-making culminated in a nationally distributed professional development CD that garnered seven national or international media awards. As a co-author of approximately $3.8 million funded proposals, Parette's most recent grant activities have involved SEAT Center team members' involvement in research investigations examining emergent literacy outcomes subsequent to technology-supported instructional strategies among more than 300 children in a local preschool setting, and a development of professional development materials for national distribution to practicing school psychologists. During his tenure at Illinois State he has also been a Co-PI on several U.S.D.E. grants including the National Assistive Technology Coalition (NATC) project and The Effectiveness of the SOLO™ Software Upon the Writing Outcomes of Students with Learning and Academic Disabilities Across the Curriculum. He has also been principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on several foundation grants involving multiple team members.
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