George Baroff | Dr. Prabjyot Malhi | Dr. Usha Grover | V.R.P. Sheilaja Rao | Dr. Gregory F. Aloia | Rangasamy Ramasamy | Dr. Jayanthi Narayan | Sudha Kaul | Dr. Vibha Krishnamurthy | Dr. K. VijayRaghavan | Dr. John Stone | Mr. Akhil S Paul | Cecilie MacKinnon | Dr. Asish Kumar Mukherjee | Dr. Flora Tassone | Randi Hagerman | Dr. Sumantra Chattarji | Shalini Kedia | Ms. Reena Bhandari | Dr.V.Viswanathan | Mythily Chari | Maj. Gen. Ian Cardozo (Retd.) | Dr. Shariqua Yunus | Dr. Nandini Mundkur | J. P. Gadkari | Dr. Patricia Champion |
George S. Baroff
George S. Baroff, is a clinical psychologist and retired Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his retirement, he directed a program at the University called the Developmental Disabilities Training Institute. The Institute has a long history of providing training to persons working with children and adults with developmental disabilities. Primarily, training workers in the field of mental retardation, now called, "intellectual disability", the Institute had a leading role in the creation of services at the community - rather than at the institutional level. In support of these activities, Professor Baroff authored a textbook that is now in its third edition, "Mental Retardation: Nature, Cause, and Management". He has also written a shorter book which, in addition to mental retardation, describes the nature and adaptive problems associated with such other major developmental disabilities as autism, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy. Published in 1991, its title is "Developmental Disabilities: Psychosocial Aspects".
Professor Baroff has also been much involved as a psychologist in the assistance of criminal defendants who are mentally handicapped and is the author of a chapter in a recently published book that addresses these problems from an international perspective. Published in 2004, its title is "Offenders with Developmental Disabilities".
Professor Baroff was our guest at the 2004 Conference and was much impressed with the quality of our educational program and with the warmth, graciousness, and generosity of the Indian people. We are delighted to have him back with us this year.
Dr. Prabjyot Malhi
Dr. Prabjyot Malhi, is an Additional Professor in Child Psychology working in the Advanced Pediatric Centre at the Post graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) which is a tertiary care teaching hospital. She runs a Child counseling Clinic in the hospital.
She has more than 80 publications including several papers in International journals and has guided more than 20 MD thesis. Her special interest is in the early identification of children with developmental disabilities especially autism.
Dr. Usha Grover
Dr. Usha Grover, NIMH, Regional Centre, Lajput Nagar, New Delhi-24. She has done her PhD in Special education and the focus of her study was on the sibling relationship in the management of a child with disability. She has 23 years of professional experience in the field of Mental Retardation and she specializes in developing training programs for various level of target groups and consultations.
V.R.P. Sheilaja Rao
V.R.P. Sheilaja Rao, Lecturer in Special Education, Department of Special Education, NIMH Secunderabad.
Qualifications
- Certificate in Teaching MR
- MSW - Med & Social Work
Professional Experience
- 3 yrs - in charge of HBP for Portage in BHEL (Hyd)
- 17 yrs - Lecturer in Spl Education - NIMH
Area of Interest
- Pre-school Inclusion programme for special needs group
- Working with families
- Group work approach in training persons with special needs and their families
Gregory F. Aloia
Gregory F. Aloia, Ph.D. is currently the Dean of the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He has a B.A. degree in History from St. Mary's College in California and a Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of California at Riverside. He has worked for the U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C. and has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona, Arkansas State University, and the State University of New York at Geneseo where he was Department Chairman of Special Education for six years. He served as Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at Illinois State University for five years.
He has been honored as the "Educator of the Year" from the Arizona State Association for Retarded Citizens and as the "Outstanding Faculty Member" at Arkansas State University, as well as the Outstanding Teacher at Illinois State University by the Student Education Association. He was selected as the Outstanding Graduate Student from his doctoral institution and was named Honorary Dean of the College of Education at Taegu University, South Korea. He has received awards for excellence in mentoring students, and was inducted into his alma mater's athletic Hall of Fame.
He has been involved in international programs for more than 20 years. He has lectured in Brazil, Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, and India. As graduate Dean, he oversaw graduate and exchange programs in Mexico, Thailand, Korea, and China. Florida Atlantic University currently has international initiatives in several countries including Malaysia and India.
Dean Aloia has also served as a consultant to several state educational agencies and the federal government. Throughout his career he has been an active researcher and writer and has been awarded several grants from federal, state, and private agencies. He has over 60 publications, including a children's book entitled The Legend of the Golden Straw. He has presented more than seventy papers at international and national professional conferences.
