Special Education, Research, Assessment, Intervention, and Support
My Professional Background
- Clinician, teacher, and professor of Special Education, whose work has spanned over four decades
- Internationally recognized writer, researcher, and presenter on the effects of health conditions on learning, language development and literacy, and PANS/PANDAS
- Instructional experience with students of every age and developmental level- from preschool to the post- graduate level
- Learning Disabilities (LD) Specialist for the California Community College System
- Consulting Learning Specialist for Alameda County Social Services, CA
- Bilingual/Cross Cultural Special Education research, instruction, and supervision in East Africa and Western Europe (Additional (primate) research conducted in the Central African nations of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the former Republic of Zaire).
- Additional examples of published research include: Factors Contributing to Multilingualism Among Students with Intellectual Disabilities; The Contributing Roles of Women and of Spanish and Mexican Civil Law in the Introduction and Expansion of Literacies into North America and the US (Roman Alphabet, Music Notations, Book Publishing, etc.); Environmental Risks to Student Learning and Health Associated with Living and Working in Migrant Farm Worker Communities
- Ongoing research into the role of neuroplastic symptoms on learning ability, achievement, and behaviors; including seminal work on the notion of Societal Pain (Winston Kennedy and Jamie Candelaria-Greene, Medium, 2022)
Academic Background and Training
- PhD Special Education (UC Berkeley)
- Visiting Researcher Scholar in the Study of Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) and Learning (UC Berkeley)
- California State Teaching Credentials in Regular and Special Education- Preschool, K-12, Adult (UC Davis and CSUS)
- MA Special Education; BA French Language and Literature (CSUS)
- Certification as a Learning Disabilities (LD) Specialist for the California Community College System
- Board Certified Educational Therapist (CSUSF)
- Post Graduate Level Training in Bilingual Special Education (Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico)
- Advanced training in Psychophysiologic Disorders (PPD), Pain Reprocessing Therapies (PRT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS) as applied to societal, social, and personal traumas affecting learning ability and academic success
- EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Certification (Level 3)
Ongoing Support and Research into Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS), Immune-Related Encephalopathies, and Education**
Qualitative Research into the Study of the PANS Survivor Perspective
(Update)
MANY THANKS to those wonderful participants
who generously offered to share
their insightful- and invaluable- perspectives!
The interviews are presently being analyzed.
Findings of this seminal research will be included in the second edition of the book below.
PANS, CANS, and Automobiles: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
for Helping Students with PANDAS and PANS
J. Candelaria-Greene PhD, BCET
First Edition Publishing,
GOLD WINNER Special Needs Human Relations Indie Book Award
Considerations for Health Care Professionals
in the Education of PANS-Affected Students
J. Candelaria-Greene PhD, BCET (For PANDAS PHYSICIANS NETWORK)
https://www.pandasppn.org/education-resource/
Consideraciones Para Profesionales de la Salud en la Educación de Estudiantes Afectados con PANS (See Below)
PANS/PANDAS Educational Toolkit
J. Candelaria Greene PhD, BCET, Lead Contributor
http://pandasnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/PANDAS-NETWORK_EDUCATIONTOOLKIT.pdf
Tutorial of PANS and Education
produced by Dr. Jan Tona and her team at the University of Buffalo
Dr. Candelaria-Greene, Chapter Narrator
The Importance of School Nursing in PANS
(found in the following section)