Lucinda (Cindi) Spaulding is an Assistant Professor in Liberty’s School of Education
and teaches special education and research courses. She has a Ph.D. in Special Education
and Educational Psychology, a M.Ed. in Special Education, and a B.S. in Elementary
Education. She has permanent teacher certification in New York State in Elementary
Education and Special Education (Pre-K -12) and is licensed in the Commonwealth of
Virginia in Elementary Education, Specific Learning Disabilities, Emotional Disabilities,
and Mental Retardation. 

Cindi was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada and has taught in general education, special
education, and inclusion settings at the elementary level in the United States and ESL at
the high school level in Japan. Her research interests include resilience in children and
youth, specific learning disabilities and methods of best practice, the history of
special education, and standards based reform and educational policy. 

Cindi and her husband enjoy spending time with their little son, running, hiking,
cooking, gardening, and traveling.

Articles

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A Time to Define: Making the Specific Learning Disability Definition Prescribe Specific Learning Disability (with Kenneth A. Kavale and Andrea P. Beam), Learning Disability Quarterly (2009)
Unlike other special education categories defined in U.S. law (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), the...
 

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Best Practices and Interventions in Special Education: How Do We Know What Works?, Teaching Exceptional Children Plus (2009)
The critical issue in special education today is no longer the assurance of access, but...
 

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Is Response-to-Intervention Good Policy for Specific Learning Disability? (with Kenneth A. Kavale), Learning Disabilities Research & Practice (2008)
The reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004) established new provisions for specific...
 

Presentations

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Best Practices for Inclusive Science Instruction (with Jenny Sue Flannagan), Council for Exceptional Children (2009)
The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of evidence based best practices...