Kate Ascetta

Assistant Professor

Public Health Sciences

Kate Ascetta is the Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (CT UCEDD) where she also coordinates the technical assistance for institutes of higher education faculty through the Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Center (ECIPC). She is an assistant professor in public health sciences at UConn’s School of Medicine.

Her scholarship addresses how access to quality teacher preparation programs and professional development can strengthen the early childhood intervention workforce. She is skilled in program of study development within institutions for higher education. Additionally, she has established strong community partnerships that leverage perspectives from traditionally underrepresented groups to develop systems of change done with, rather than done to, a particular population.