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Discipline Coordinators: |
Special Education |
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Specialty Resource Contacts: | School functioning of children/youth with special health care needs
Role of special education on interdisciplinary clinic and community teams Learning and attention disabilities |
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Discipline(s): |
Education/Special Education Public Health |
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AUCD Council Membership: |
No Council Membership |
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Research: | School Outcomes of Children with Special Health Care Needs | ||||||||||||||||||
Education: | M.Ed. University of Nebraska; Special Education & Educational Psychology
B.S. Southern Illinois University; Special Education | ||||||||||||||||||
Service: | Council for Exceptional Children
International Dyslexia Association |
Vita/Bio
Karen Brown is an Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at OHSU. She received her MEd from the University of Nebraska and has 20 years of experience as a special educator and administrator. She provides Education Consultation services to the Hemophilia Treatment Center and the Oregon Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. She is an education diagnostician in the LEND Clinic program. Her professional interests include language-based learning disabilities, adolescent transition, improving school outcomes for children/youth with special health care needs, and community-based multi-disciplinary care teams.
Publications:
Brown, K. (2010). The Role of Special Educators and Special Education Law in Pediatric Care. In W. Votroubek & A. Tabacco (Eds.), Pediatric home care for nurses: A family-centered approach, third edition. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.