Faculty Vita

Lewis Polsgrove, Ed.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Polsgrove, L. & Ochoa, T. (in press). Issues in behavioral interventions. In A.D. McCray, H.J. Rieth, & P.T. Sindelar (Eds.) Current and emerging issues in special education. Boston: Allyn & Bacon

Polsgrove, L. (1998). Coming home: What's working in transitions from restrictive settings. Reaching Today's Youth. Bloomington, IN: National Educational Service.

Polsgrove, L. (1999). Preparing Personnel for Meeting the Needs of Children and Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: A Perspective. New Hampshire Journal of Education, 2, 40-47.

Nelson, C.M., Scott, T.M., & Polsgrove, L. (1999). Perspective on emotional/behavioral disorders: Assumptions and their implications for education and treatment. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.

Brigham, F., & Polsgrove, L. (1998). A rumor of a paradigm shift in the field of children's emotional and behavioral disorders. Behavioral Disorders. 23, 166-170.

Polsgrove, L., Derer, K., & Rieth, H.J. (1996). A survey of assistive technology applications and recommendations for practice. Journal of Special Education Technology. Reprinted in G. McGregor and R.T. Vogesberg (Eds.) (1997). Assistive technology tools for children with disabilities. Missoula, MT:University of Montana Affiliated Rural Institute on Disabilities.

Funded Projects

Project Director (1990_1995) Center on Assistive Technology, Indiana Department of Human Services, $200,000.

Project Director and Principal Investigator (1991_1993) Analysis of Technology Assistance for Children (ATAC) Project, USDOE/OSEP $340,000.

Principal Investigator (1991_1995) CONNECT Project: Restructuring Services in Indiana for Emotionally Handicapped Children, US DOE/OSEP & Indiana DOE, $330,000.

Project Director, Principal Investigator (1989_1991) Use of Videotape Technology for Training Children in Social Skills, Indiana Department of Mental Health, $20,000.

Project Director, Principal Investigator (1985_1989) Training Secondary Teachers in Transition Skills (TRANSPEC) project, US DOE/OSEP, $270,000.

Project Director (1985_1987) A Community_based Model for Public School Exit and Transition to Employment (COMPETE), USDOE/OSEP Department of Education, OSE Grant, $300,000.

Principal Investigator (1983_1985) Research Institute: Maximizing Instruction with Computer Research and Organizational Structure (MICROS), US DOE/OSEP $1,200,000.

Project Director & Principal Investigator (1984_1986) A Project to Develop and Implement a Microcomputer_Based Special Teacher Education and Evaluation Laboratory (STEEL), US DOE/OSEP, $375,000.

Principal Investigator (1979_1982) Joint Program to Prepare Special Educators and Vocational Educators for Teaching Handicapped Secondary School Students, USOE/BEH, $150,000.

Principal Investigator (1978_1981) A Cascade of Services Model Program for Mildly Handicapped Adolescents, USOE/BEH, $923,000.

Principal Investigator (1975_1978) Teaching Interpersonal and Self_Management Skills to Mildly Handicapped Adolescents, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, $285,000.

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Educational Research Association

Association for Behavior Analysis

Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy

Council for Exceptional Children

Conference Presentations

Keynote Address: "Lunacy in Services and Personnel Training in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders" 25th Annual Conference on Severe Behavior Disorders of Children and Youth, Scottsdale, Arizona, November, 2001.

Presentation: "Preliminary results of a state-wide survey of teachers of children with emotional and behavioral disorders. "25th Annual Conference on Severe Behavior Disorders of Children and Youth; Scottsdale, Arizona, November, 2001.

Panel Chair: "Academic interventions with children with mild disabilities. International Conference on Children with Disabilities, Antalya, Turkey; June, 2001.

Invited presentation: "Characteristics and treatment of children and youth in a residential program: Is anything new?" Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders, Kansas City, Mo.; February, 2000.

Presentation: "School-linked Ecological Interventions: Practice & Promise." International Adolescent Conference X, Portland Oregon, November, 2000.

Presentation: Theory, practice, and effectiveness of anger control training Annual Conference on Severe Behavior Disorders of Children and Youth; Tempe, Arizona; November, 1999.

Presentation: "Survey of the use of assistive technology and implications for teacher education." International Conference on Technology in Teacher Education. Edinburgh, Scotland; March, 1999.

Service/Outreach Projects

Director, Undergraduate Program in Special Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, School of Education, Indiana University (1999-present).

Chair, Member Search and Screen Committee--Special Education Program, Department of C& I, School of Education, Indiana University (1996, 1998, 1999).

Chair, Search and Screen Committee for the Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities Director, Indiana University (1995_1996).

Chair, Indiana University, Master's Program in Special Education, School of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction (1995_1999).

Member, Indiana University Undergraduate Program in Special Education, School of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction (1985_1996).

Issue Editor: "Transition programs for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders" Reaching Today's Youth (Summer, 1998).

Associate Editor, Reviewer, Journal of Special Education Technology (1985_1999).

Consulting Editor, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice (1989_1998).

Consulting Editor, Remedial and Special Education (1985_1999).

Consulting Editor, Behavioral Disorders (1979_1994).

Reviewer, Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (1989_1996).

Advisory Board, HOPE Foundation, Bloomington, Indiana, 1999. Issue editor, "Effective Transition programs for youth with emotional/behavioral disorders. Reaching Today's Youth, summer 1998.

Strand leader, "Wrap-around services for children with emotional/behavioral disorders" International Conference of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders, Irving, Texas, October, 1997.

Consultant, University of Kentucky Community_based Integrated Training Project (1994_1996).

Consultant, Spencer_Owen, Bean Blossom Community Schools, Spencer, Indiana (1994_1996).

Honors/Awards

Teaching award, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, 2001

Appointed Consulting Editor Behavioral Disorders, 1999.

CCBD student paper of the year (1992) to Tareesh Al_Shamari (Dissertation Chair).

Elected President: Council for Children with Behavior Disorders, Council for Exceptional Children (1988_1989).

Appointed Associate Editor, Journal of Special Education Technology (1985).

Appointed Consulting Editor, Remedial and Special Education (1984).

Elected Treasurer: Council for Children with Behavior Disorders, Council for Exceptional Children (1980).

Elected President Teacher Educators for Children with Behavior Disorders (1980).

Appointed to the Graduate School Faculty, Indiana University (1981).

Appointed Consulting Editor, Behavioral Disorders (1979).

Elected to the Association of Behavior Analysis (1979).

Elected to the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (1979).

Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Special Education, University of Kentucky (1971_1973).

USOE Graduate Fellowship in Special Education, University of Kentucky (1969_1971).