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- Office Phone : 801-264-4214
- Email : cowleyhi@ldsces.org
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Married 43 years, 4 children, 5 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild Church Calling: High Counselor Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
- Office : Jordan Institute
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- Office Phone : (801) 562-8160
- Email : deckerrt@ldsces.org
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- Email : halversencl@ldsces.org
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Brother Halverson enjoys teaching and learning from the scriptures. He is married and has one daughter. He graduated from BYU and Utah State. He also teaches students with special needs in Davis School District.
- Office : South City Institute
- Office Hours : M-F 8:00-4:00
- Office Phone : 468-5828
- Email : hannasf@ldsces.org
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Sister Hanna has a Masters Degree in Special Education and has been teaching in Seminary and Institute for 29 years. She loves working with students and going to Montana to pan for gold. She is currently the Salt Lake Valley Special Needs Coordinator and is teaching classes at South City Institute and Salt Lake University Institute.
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- Email : miliuska@ldsces.org
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Sis. Milius currently teaches classes at Hartvigsen, Granite and Salt Lake University Campuses. She attended University of Utah where she received her Bachelors in Special Education, Associates in Para Education. She has been involved with Special Needs Education in CES sense 1999. "Teaching is interactive. Students should be involved in their own learning. Everyone should be able to participate."
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Sis. Milius currently teaches classes at Hartvigsen and Granite Campuses. She has been co-teaching with her daughter Karen Milius for 6 years. "I want to help students feel the love of their Lord and nearer to him, and to increase their love of scripture and their testimonies."
- Office : West Jordan Institute
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- Office Phone : 801-562-8032
- Email : myattka@ldsces.org
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Sister Myatt's Grandparents were deaf + mute which planted the seed within her to help those with special needs. She has been teaching adaptive classes with CES for 12 years in Seminary and Institute. Sister Myatt is a convert to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She gained a special love for the gospel and the scriptures serving as a missionary in the Colorado Denver Mission. She has a wonderful and supportive family that she loves very much and is ever grateful for and to. "Perhaps more of us, including our students, could literally or at least figuratively, behold the angels around us if we would awaken from our stupor and hear the voice of the spirit as those angels try to speak... ...We need to speak of and believe in and bear testimony of the ministry of angels more than we sometimes do. - "A Standard unto My People," an address by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, delivered at a CES Symposium on August 9, 1994, Brigham Young University
- Office : Matheson Jr.
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- Email : Olsonjk@ldsces.org
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I have taught seminary or institute for 16 years, 8 of those years were special needs.
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- Email : specialneedss@ldsces.org
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Serving a Church-Service Mission in the Salt Lake Valley Institutes of Religion Loves to run, golf, read, write, and teach the gospel. "Never give up! Never surrender!"
- Office : West Jordan Institute
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- Email : robbja@ldsces.org
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Sis. Robb currently teaches classes at Jordan and West Jordan Institutes. She has been with CES for 24 years and has been involved with a variety of different class types for students 9-12th grade in seminary and in institute. She is continuously being educated by the spirit on the particular needs of a given class or student. She enjoys going to all the area and valley CES trainings she can attend. She says that she learned everything she knows by the spirit and through the answering of prayer and the trainings. That is the greatest education there is. She loves teaching and says she has the best job in the world. "The influence of the Spirit is the most important element in this work. If you will allow the Spirit to magnify your callings, you will be able to work miracles for the Lord" - President Ezra Taft Benson (new mission presidents' seminar, June 25, 1986) Printed "Latter-day Saint Voices," Ensign, Mar 2007, 68-71
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- Email : specialneedsslc@ldsces.org
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Elder Ross has been serving his mission with us since February 2007. He helps with many different classes in both seminaries and institutes. Elder Ross has also been involved with the deaf helping build and expand the program. "If you build it, they will come."
- Office : Sandy Institute
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- Office Phone : 801-576-2966
- Email : strongja@ldsces.org
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I'm new to institute this year. I have taught adapted seminary at Brighton Seminary for the past six years and Skyline Seminary last year. I love the gospel and studying the scriptures. I especially love the students I have taught and who have taught me over the years. I am happily a wife, mother to four sons and a daughter, mother-in-law to four daughters-in-law, and grandmother of five.
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- Office Phone : (866) 671-7778 VP/VRS
- Email : vandegraaffn@ldschurch.org
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- Office Phone : 801-964-3064
- Email : walkermm@ldsces.org
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Sis. Walker currently teaches classes at Taylorsville Institute. She grew up with several siblings that had special needs and has assisted in taking care of them most of her life. She started teaching in January of 2007 taking over for the class that her mom taught. "I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ." - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant