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David Scanlon

Program Director, Moderate Support Needs

Associate Professor

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David Scanlon

Ph.D.

Contact

Campion Hall Room 218

Telephone: 617-552-4180

Email: david.scanlon@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Arizona
  • M.O.E., University of New Hampshire
  • B.S., University of New Hampshire
  • A.A.S., University of New Hampshire

Courses

Education and Development for Students with Disabilities

Educational Strategies: Children with Special Needs

Understanding Learning Disabilities and Education

Teaching and Learning Strategies - Moderate Support Needs

Teaching and Learning Strategies for Inclusive Secondary Educators

Dissertation Seminar

Research Interests

Strategic Teaching & Learning; Student Self-Advocacy; Content-Area Literacy

Expertise

  • Curriculum & Instruction
  • Cognitive and Social Development
Curriculum Vitae

Department

TCS Teaching, Curriculum, and Society

Profile

David Scanlon, Ph.D. specializes in cognitive-strategic teaching & learning, content-area literacy, and self-advocacy, particularly as they pertain to students with high-incidence disabilities in inclusive education. His research is focused on interventions empowering learners and those who teach them. The former chairperson of the AERA Special Education Research SIG and the Council for Learning Disabilities Research Committee, he has published two textbooks and numerous peer-reviewed research articles, and has received over $5million in research funding. He also teaches about special education methods and global perspectives on disabilities and special education. Scanlon is former editor of the Learning Disability Quarterly and current editor of Learning Disabilities Research & Practice. He is a Fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities.

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
  • Collaborator on "Towards An International Understanding of Learning Disabilities", a project with researchers from University of Athens, University of Cologne, and Wuppertal University to identify an international typology of "specific learning disabilites"
  • Editor, "The International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities"

Publications

  • Scanlon, D., & Yatsu, D.K. (in press). A Comprehensive Accommodation Model In the Catholic School Inclusive Context.听 Journal of Catholic Education.
  • Park, H. & Scanlon, D.听 (2024). General educators鈥� perceptions of struggling learners in an inaugural project-based learning capstone.听 International Journal of Inclusive Education. 0.1080/13603116.2024.2310673
  • Scanlon, D., Calhoon, M.B., & Berkeley, S. (2021). Making FAPE appropriate now for students with learning disabilities. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 36(4), 287-294. DOI: 10.1111/ldrp.12262听
  • Louick, R, & Scanlon, D. (2021). Sustained feelings of success and agency: Keys to literacy motivation among adolescents with learning disabilities, Exceptionality, 29(1), 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/09362835.2019.1639184
  • Scanlon, D., Nannemann, A., & Baker, D. (2021). Lessons from research for implementing an instructional accommodations model in secondary inclusion. Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26(1), 1-15.
  • Calhoon, M.B., Berkeley, S.B., & Scanlon, D. (2019). The erosion of FAPE for students with LD. Learning Disability Research and Practice,34(1), 6-13. DOI: DOI:10.1111/ldrp.12188
  • Scanlon, D., Saenz, L, & Kelly, M.P. (2018). The effectiveness of alternative IEP dispute resolution practices. Learning Disability Quarterly, 41(2), 68-78. DOI 10.1177/0731948717698827
  • Scanlon, D. (2013). Specific Learning Disability and its newest definition: Which is comprehensive? and Which is insufficient? Journal of Learning Disabilities, 46(1), 26-33.

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Select Grants

  • Scanlon, D. Principal Investigator. The Disability Self-Awareness for Empowerment de Project. Michael and Susan Argyelan Education Research Fund听
  • Scanlon, D. Principal Investigator/Administrator. The SpedEx Consultation IEP Dispute Resolution Project. MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Selected Appointments & Awards

  • Illumination (Advising) Award. Boston College Career Development Center
  • Fellow, International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities
  • Fellow, Autism Consortium Doctoral听
  • Fellowship, Hammill Institute on Disabilities, awarded to doctoral students studying with D. Scanlon

Professional Activities

  • Administrator, SpedEx Consultation; Editor, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice听
  • Committee Chairperson (2019), Janette Klingner Doctoral Student Presentation Award. Conference of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, Crete, Greece
  • New Faculty Mentor. Leadership Institute. International Council for Learning Disabilities
  • Member, Executive Committee. International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities; Associate Program Chairperson. Council for Exceptional Children Annual Conference. The Council for Exceptional Children
  • Technical Review Committee Member. National Center on Intensive Interventions. American Institutes for Research [AIR], Vanderbilt University. Sponsored by the U.S. DOE Office of Special Education Programs
  • Reviewer. Learning Information and Communication System (LINCS) Resource Collection. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education
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