Dr. Beth Ann Handler is a Language and Learning Disabilities Specialist who has been in private practice since 1973.
NEW YORK, NY, January 06, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Beth Ann Handler, EdD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Handler celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Handler is a Language and Learning Disabilities Specialist who has been in private practice since 1973. Working in New York City her entire career, she first began in 1969 as a reading teacher at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and then a project associate training teachers at the Special Educational Instructional Center within the New York City Board of Education. Spending another two years as an instructor in the Department of Special Education and Program Coordinator of Education for Autistic Adolescents at Teachers College, Columbia University between 1982 and 1984, she subsequently became a learning specialist and consultant at the Trinity School in New York City where she remained until 1994. For the past 15 years, Dr. Handler has worked as a private practitioner diagnosing, tutoring, and consulting both at the St. Hilda's & Hugh's School in New York City as well as in her office at 350 Central Park West, New York, New York. She continues to love developing curriculum and tutoring in order to facilitate the necessary reading, writing, spelling, listening, math, and study skills for children who learn differently. Dr. Handler finds that working closely with the extraordinarily caring administrators, teachers and parents of these children at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School enables her to provide successful individualized curriculum for each of her tutees. Dr. Handler has also been serving since 1997 as a longtime nongovernmental organization member on mental health with the United Nations.
While studying for her bachelor's degree at Boston University, Dr. Handler was a student teaching off campus where she encountered four students who today would be diagnosed as Learning Disabled and/or Dyslexic. This interaction sparked a lasting passion for understanding how to teach children who learn differently. Earning her Bachelor of Science in 1968, she continued her formal academic efforts with a Master of Arts from New York University in 1969. Concluding her studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Handler obtained a Master of Education in 1979 and a Doctor of Education in 1993. Moreover, Dr. Handler was fortunate to learn essentials from Drs. Martha Denckla, Jeannette Jansky, Lauretta Bender, Sam Anderson, Donald Dunton, Howard Hunt as well as Katrina deHirsch and Evelyn Heimlich while she was teaching children with emotional and learning disorders at The New York State Psychiatric Institute from 1969-1977. "None of these extraordinary individuals, however, would have been available to me," remarked Dr. Handler, "without Dr. Pearl Berkowitz (principal of the hospital's school) allowing me the time to learn from these doctors and providing me with the texts, diagnostic tests and teaching materials that I often requested."
Dr. Handler is a member of the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society. For 1968 and 1969, she was granted a full-scholarship for graduate training for teaching emotionally disturbed children while at New York University. She also had a grant to study advanced methods of paraverbal therapy at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, New York. She spent time as a member of the New York City Task Force For Education. Notably, she collaborated on a training video titled "Behavioral Changes in a Schizophrenic Child During Treatment" in 1972. The following year, Dr. Handler served as a co-coordinator for a second training video, "New Diagnostic Procedures and Remedial Techniques for Educating Autistic Children."
Recalling some great moments in her career, Dr. Handler remembers working with a six-year-old boy diagnosed as autistic who was unable to comprehend what he could decode while reading and unable to communicate with others. Fortunately, Dr. Handler devised a curriculum for him that facilitated his ability to use novel language to communicate. Another student, whom she still tutors five hours a week, is a 20-year-old male who came to her reading at the ninth grade level and having significant difficulty writing essays and studying. Thanks to Dr. Handler's involvement, a year after the tutoring began, he enrolled and is doing well at a community college in New York City.
As past president of the New York Council of Educational Diagnostic Services, Dr. Handler has also been a member of several other organizations. These include the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, The International Dyslexia Association, the Council for Exceptional Children, the International Literacy Association, the Orton Dyslexia Society, and Everyone Reading. Honored as a New York University Graduate Training Scholar in 1968 and 1969, and Paraverbal Therapy Society Scholar in 1979, Dr. Handler has since been featured in the fifth edition of Who's Who in American Education.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Handler has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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