{"id":10206,"date":"2022-12-08T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/coe\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2023-05-11T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T15:40:54","slug":"student-finds-passion-in-special-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/blog\/student-finds-passion-in-special-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Student finds passion in special education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lorie Lee never imagined she\u2019d make it to university; she is now graduating with two degrees, having won the prestigious President\u2019s Prize. A mother of three and non-traditional student, her inspiring tale begins earlier than her first day at NAU. As a child, Lee experienced poverty, a mother with substance abuse issues and a father unwilling to care for her. Through the support of her friends and teachers, Lee found a love and passion for education and excelled academically. Married and raising three children with special needs, Lee enrolled at NAU&#8217;s North Valley campus and is earning a bachelor&#8217;s degree in both elementary education and special education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/mother-teacher-and-non-traditional-student-finds-passion-in-special-education\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=12-8-22%20edition&amp;utm_campaign=NAUNews&amp;utm_term=internal&amp;utm_content=Lorie_Lee\"><em>The NAU Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorie Lee never imagined she\u2019d make it to university; she is now graduating with two degrees, having won the prestigious President\u2019s Prize. A mother of three and non-traditional student, her inspiring tale begins earlier than her first day at NAU. As a child, Lee experienced poverty, a mother with substance abuse issues and a father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coe-news","category-educational-specialties-news","category-teaching-and-learning-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13184,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions\/13184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}