Jerae H. Kelly

Jerae H. Kelly is an assistant professor of special education at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her current research interests are building cultural competency in pre-service special education teachers and socio-cognitive literacy interventions for students with high-incidence disabilities.

Publications

Culturally Responsive Special Education: Using Cultural Liaisons to Increase Family Engagement
Culturally Responsive Special Education: Using Cultural Liaisons to Increase Family Engagement
Lydia Gerzel-Short, Jerae H. Kelly, Katrina A. Hovey, Yun-Ju Hsiao, Yan Wei. © 2023. 17 pages.
Families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds often feel disrespected, unheard, misunderstood, and undervalued. Extant research demonstrates that CLD...