Inclusive Early Childhood Special Education
Faculty
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Corinne Roth Smith
Professor, Program Coordinator, Department Chair
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-9321
crsmith@syr.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1973
School psychological assessment and intervention practice; learning disabilities
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Barbara Applebaum
Associate Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-3702
bappleba@syr.edu
Ph.D. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 1994
Barbara Applebaum, associate professor of cultural foundations of education, is trained in philosophy of education. Applebaum's scholarly interests are currently focused on the point where ethics, education, and commitments to diversity converge. Her research is heavily informed by feminist ethics, feminist philosophy, and critical race theory. Applebaum's published papers have appeared in such journals as Educational Theory, Philosophy of Education, Educational Foundations, and the Journal of Moral Education. Applebaum is currently examining the theories of self and agency that are necessary to ground and sustain educational initiatives committed to social justice. Applebaum has a special interest in teachers' self-reflections on their own teaching process and has written articles on caring, building trust in the classroom, and what teacher authority can mean for a feminist pedagogue.
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Christine Ashby
Assistant Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-8689
ceashby@syr.edu
Christy Ashby is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching and Leadership Department of the School of Education at Syracuse University. She teaches in the Inclusive Elementary and Special Education Program and the Graduate Inclusive Education Programs. Her teaching and research focuses on inclusive education broadly, with specific emphasis on students with labels of autism and other developmental disabilities. Her work also includes differentiated instruction, collaborative teaching and inclusive school reform. She teaches courses on inclusive education for students considered to have significant disabilities as well as the introductory course for the Inclusive Elementary and Special Education Program. Additionally, Christy is the Research Director for the Facilitated Communication Institute and Co-Director for the Schools of Promise initiative. Dr. Ashby's research has been accepted for publication in journals including the International Journal of Inclusive Education, Disability and Society, and Intellectual and Developmental Disability.
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Douglas Biklen
Dean, Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-4751
dpbiklen@syr.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1973
Professor, Cultural Foundations of Education, Disability Studies, Teaching and Leadership Programs; Senior Faculty, Center on Disability Studies, Law and Human Policy
Dean Biklen specializes in school inclusion, autism, deinstitutionalization, disability studies, facilitated communication, mental retardation, the representation of disability in popular culture, social policy, and the sociology of disability. He is on the executive board of the Autism National Committee. He co-produced the 2004 Academy Award nominated, CNN/State of the Art Inc. documentary film Autism is a World. His most recent book, Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone (2005) is published by NYU Press. Biklen introduced the technique of facilitated communication to the United States from Australia in 1989 and is author of Contested Words, Contested Science: Unraveling the Facilitated Communication Controversy (Teachers College Press, 1997) and Communication Unbound: How Facilitated Communication is Challenging Traditional Values of Autism and Ability/Disability (Teachers College Press, 1993). His work has been featured on ABC's PrimeTime Live and the CBS Evening News, as well as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report.
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Julie Causton-Theoharis
Assistant Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-9651
jcauston@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Julie Causton-Theoharis is an Assistant Professor in the Inclusive and Special Education Program in the Department of Teaching and Leadership at Syracuse University. Her teaching, research and consulting are guided by a passion for inclusive education. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on including students who have traditionally been marginalized in school settings and creating student centered classrooms through differentiation, curricular adaptations and universal design of curriculum and instruction. Before she was a professor, Julie taught special education in diverse and inclusive educational settings at elementary, middle and high school levels.
Julie’s research and writing focus on best practices in inclusive education, particularly lesson planning for inclusive settings, maximizing interaction through paraprofessional support, inclusive education as social justice, and inclusive teacher training programs. Her published works have appeared in such journals as Exceptional Children and Teaching Exceptional Children.
Dr. Causton-Theoharris' Home Page
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Wendy Harbour
Lawrence B. Taishoff Assistant Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-2685
wharbour@syr.edu
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Dalia Rodriguez
Assistant Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-9656
darodrig@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2005. Dalia Rodriguez, assistant professor of Cultural Foundations of Education, is a specialist in the area of sociology of education and qualitative research methods. Currently, her research interests focus on issues of access to education, racial inequality, and multicultural education. Her scholarly work is interdisciplinary, drawing from the areas of sociology, race-based theory, and policy studies. Committed to diversity and educational reform, Rodriguez has collaboratively developed college recruitment programs for students, notably from the Chicago area as well as Puerto Rico. Most recently, she worked for the State Senate of New Mexico, where she advocated for the Albuquerque Public Schools by conducting research on effective ways of dealing with No Child Left Behind legislation.
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Mara Sapon-Shevin
Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-5088
msaponsh@syr.edu
Ed.D. University of Rochester, 1976
Mara Sapon-Shevin, professor of teaching and leadership programs, is a specialist in diversity and social justice issues, including full inclusion, anti-racism teaching, bullying and harassment, cooperative learning, the politics of gifted education, multicultural education, and school reform and restructuring. She has written more than 150 books, book chapters, and articles and has presented workshops on cooperative learning and cooperative games for the classroom throughout the United States, in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and England.
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George Theoharis
Assistant Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-5271
gtheohar@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
In addition to being an accomplished scholar, George Theoharis also has had extensive field experience in education as a teacher, administrator and principal in the Madison Metropolitan School District. He is an assistant professor in educational leadership and inclusive elementary education in the department of Teaching and Leadership. He teaches classes in educational leadership and elementary social studies methods.
His research focuses on public school leaders committed to equity and justice, they success/reforms these leaders accomplish, and the resistance they face. His interests and work focuses on issues of equity, justice, diversity, inclusion, urban schools, and school reform.
Theoharis completed his Ph.D. degree in educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Emeriti
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David Krathwohl
Professor Emeritus
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-7612
drkrathw@syr.edu