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Linda L. Barry, B.A. M.A.

Ms. Barry is an experienced educator and administrator. She has worked with teachers, administrators, parents, their special needs children, adults with mental retardation, developmental disabilities, advocacy organizations state agencies and local program agencies She was an educator and administrator with a license and expertise in special education. Her work environment was with a major U.S. city public school system.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts
• Master of Arts

Biographical Information

Ms. Linda Barry has thirty five years experience as an educator, administrator, consultant and advocate in mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

In her capacity as an administrator, she was a departmental chair responsible for all special education faculty and paraprofessionals; writing, reviewing and monitoring the individual education plans; arbitrating differences with parents, teachers and school officials; assisting with student transition from school to community.

Ms. Barry has written and published numerous curriculum manuals to assist educators who work with learning disabilities students; served on several state organizations committees in the fields of mental retardation, developmental disabilities and learning disabilities; provided consultation and programming for numerous federal and state grants in the broad area of special education; served as a litigation and expert witness consultant in mental retardation and developmental disabilities

Career Summary

A public school educator at a major U.S. city school system; served for twenty four years as a departmental chair; nineteen years direct classroom teaching individuals with mental retardation, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, emotionally disturbed, visual and audible impairment; co-directed federal and state grants in advocacy, school to community transition, leisure and recreation; presented at workshops and conferences to professionals in special education continuing education; consulted in licensure of residential care facility; served as a residential care facility re-licensure evaluator; a resource expert and litigation consultant in disability issues for law firms.