Ellen Rubin, Project Coordinator

Experience

Educational Equity Concepts, Inc. Coordinator, Disability Programs. Projects: Playtime is Science for Children with Disabilities, The Alliance for Mainstreaming Youth with Disabilities, The Educational Resource Center for Women and Girls with Disabilities, The National Clearinghouse on Women and Girls with Disabilities, Mainstreaming for Equity, Project Inclusive: An Equity Approach to Early Childhood Education.
Guild for Exceptional Children, Early Intervention Program. Special Educator.
Association for the Advancement of the Blind and Retarded, Inc. Educational Programming Counselor.
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Consultation and Information Unit on Development. Educational Counselor.
George Simmons Rehabilitation Center for the Blind. Educational Program Coordinator.

Publications and Research

• "Rehabilitation Problems of Women who are Blind" Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 15, No.1, 1997.
• "Bridging the Gap: A National Directory of Services for Women and Girls with Disabilities" Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., 1990.
• "Disability Bias in Children’s Literature" Co-Author. The Lion and the Unicorn: Literature of American Minorities. Vol. 11, No. 1, April 1987.
• Including All of Us: An Early Childhood Curriculum About Disability. Co-Author. Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., 1984.
• "Appreciating Differences: Teaching Young Children About Disability," Nurturing News, Vol. 111, No. 1, March 1985.

Consultations and Memberships

• Disability Advisory Committee of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, City of New York.
• Mobility International, USA. Group Leader for International Leadership Program.
• Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities, Department of Programs and
• Services for People with Disabilities, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Chair Committee on Visual Impairment.
• Creative Adaptations for Learning, President of Board.
• Jewish Braille Institute of America, Board of Trustees.
• Jewish Guild for the Blind, Community Advisory Council.
• Commissioner’s Advisory Panel for the Office of Special Education Services, New York State Education Department. Advisory Panel member.
• Interagency Coordinating Council, New York State Department of Health. Advisory Council Member.
• Resource Access Project Region 2, New York University. Advisory Committee Member.

Education

• Bank Street College of Education, M.S., Special Education.
• Washington College, B.A., Psychology.
• New York State, Certification, Special Education, N-6.