JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Beyond Drill and Practice: Computer Art for Students with Moderate Mental Retardation." Preventing School Failure 35:2 (Winter 1994) (special issue on art and special education).

With Gloria Marino. "A Total Communication Reading Program." Teaching Exceptional Children 22:4 (1990).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Member of national group invited to develop the "Tech Use Guide, Using Computer Technology with Students with Moderate Cognitive Abilities." Washington, DC: Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), U. S. Department of Education, 1991.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"Enhancing and Displaying Students' Classwork." 72nd Annual Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Convention, Orlando, FL, March 1996.

"Learning Through the Arts"(special session). Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) National Convention, Orlando, FL, March 1996.

"Report on the NAEA Task Force on Student Learning." National Art Education Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, March 1996.

"Computer Art: From Classroom to Leisure Activity." 71st Annual Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Convention, Indianapolis, IN, April 1995.

"Inclusion?: Have We Forgotten to Include the Art Teacher? A Comparison of the Attitudes of Art, Special Education, and Regular Education Teachers Towards Mainstreaming." 70th Annual Council for Exceptional Children Convention, Denver, CO, March 1994.

WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:

1992--Started a "Special Interest Group" for Special Education Teachers of the Arts (university professors and school practitioners) that meets at CEC Conventions. I also write a special interest group newsletter, "Learning Through the Arts."

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

1995-97--Member of National Art Education Association (NAEA) Task Force on Student Learning in and Through the Arts. Task Force is part of NAEA's research agenda, "Towards the 21st Century."

1994--Received Dean's three-credit grant to survey art teachers in Connecticut to determine their special education information needs.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL (use keywords):

Art Education for Special Education Students

DISSERTATION TITLE:

A Comparison of the Attitudes of Art, Special Education, and Regular Education Teachers' Attitudes Towards Mainstreaming Special Education Students

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

Teachers College, Columbia University