Kharon Grimmet

• Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2016
  Special Education; Minor: Instructional Leadership
  Dissertation: Examining the Quality of Life for Young Adults with Intellectual Disability: Using Photo Elicitation to Empower an Unknown Voice
  Co-Chairs: Drs. David Mank & Mary Benson McMullan
• M.S. Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2004
  Special Education: Severe Disabilities, Physical Disabilities
• B.S. Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN, 2000
  Special Education: Learning Disabilities; Minor: Mild Disabilities
• B.S. Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN, 2000
  Elementary Education

• 2021 – Current Clinical Associate Professor
  Program Coordinator for Online MSEd in Special Education
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2016 – 2021 Clinical Assistant Professor
  Program Coordinator for Online MSEd in Special Education
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2014 – 2016 Clinical Assistant Instructor
  Program Coordinator for Online MSEd in Special Education
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2011 – 2014 Research Assistant, Transitional Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) Grant
  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• 2009 – 2014 Associate Instructor
  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• 2005 – 2009 4th Grade Inclusion Teacher
  Garden City Elementary
  MSD Wayne Township, Indianapolis, IN
• 2000 – 2005 Elementary Life Skills Teacher
  Frances Slocum Elementary
  Marion Community Schools, Marion, IN

• 2024 Purdue University Seed for Success Acorn Award (Lilly Endowment)
• 2023 Purdue Online Innovative Online Use of Technology
• 2023 Finalist for the 2023 Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design
• 2023 Purdue University Seed for Success Acorn Award (GEERS Grant)
• 2023 Finalist for Purdue University Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Award
• 2023 Purdue University Fall 2023 CoPILOT Community
• 2019 Purdue Online Innovative Course Design and Use of Technology Award.
• 2019 Teaching and Learning Excellence Award for a Credit Program from the Indiana Council for Continuing Education (ICCE)
• 2019 EDST Engagement Award (Assistant Professor Level)
• 2018 EDST Teaching Award (Assistant Professor Level)
• 2017 EDST Engagement Award (Assistant Professor Level)
• 2016 – 2018 Wiley Faculty Fellow

• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
  • Division for Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities (DPHMD)
  • Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE)
  • Teacher Education Division (TED)
  • Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD)
  • Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT)
• American Education Research Association (AERA)
  • Educational Policy and Politics
  • Teacher and Teacher Education
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)

Refereed Journal Articles

• Kozan, K., Jian, S., & Grimmet, K. (IN PRESS, March 2025). Ambivalent Learner Satisfaction in Relation to Teaching, Cognitive and Social Presence in Distance Education. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education.
• Sulu M., Martella R., Kiyak U., Grimmet K., Bolshokova V., Poyrazli S, & Ferrell A. (2024). Effects of Self-Monitoring Interventions on On-task Behaviors in Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms in Türkiye. Education And Training In Autism And Developmental Disabilities, 59(4).
  Kozan, K., Ayvaz, S., & Grimmet, K. (2024). A Sentiment Analysis of Emergency Online Special Education after COVID Mass Vaccinations Started. Turkish Special Education Journal: International, 6(1), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.69485/tseji.1425263
• Sulu, M., Martella, R., Grimmet, K., Austin, A., & Erden, E. (2022). Investigating the effects of self-monitoring interventions with students with disabilities on maintenance and generalization of on-task behavior: A systematic literature review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. RJAD-D-21-00144R1
• Vaiouli, P. & Grimmet, K. (2020) Enhancing engagement and early literacy through music: Perspectives from Head Start teachers. Journal of Education and Practice 11(14), 11-20. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-14-02
• Vaiouli, P., Grimmet, K., Ruich, L., (2013). “Bill is now singing”: Joint engagement and the emergence of social communication of three young children with autism. Autism. 19(1), 73-83.

Book Chapter

• Koehler, A. A., Vilarinho-Pereira, D. R., & Grimmet, K. (2024). Jenna Powell: Designing a Competency-Based Licensure Program. In The ID CaseBook (pp. 183-194). Routledge.
• Grimmet, K. (2018). Using Photo-Elicitation to Break the Silence. In Participant Empowerment Through Photo-elicitation in Ethnographic Education Research (pp. 71-92). Springer, Cham.

Other Publications

• Grimmet, K (2016). Examining the quality of life of young adults with intellectual disability: using photo-elicitation to empower an unknown voice. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text. (10195731). (L)

Special Contributions

• Council for Exceptional Children & Division for Early Childhood. (2023) K-12 and EI/ECSE Standards/Components Crosswalk.
• McLeskey, J., Council for Exceptional Children, & Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform. (2017). High-leverage practices in special education. Arlington, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.

Co-Pi 2023 – Current
Purdue University Science of Reading Implementation Grant ($1.5 Million), Lilly Endowment Inc. Principle Investigator: Jenna Rickus