     
Mitchell Yell
Brief Bio
Dr. Mitchell Yell is a
Professor in Special Education in the College of Education at the
University of South Carolina (USC) in Columbia, South Carolina.
Prior to coming to the
University
of South Carolina, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in
Minnesota for 16 years. During this time he taught in
elementary, middle, and secondary classrooms for students with mild
mental retardation, learning disabilities, emotional and behavioral
disorders, and autism.
He received his Ph.D from the University of
Minnesota in 1992. His professional interests include special
education law, evidence based interventions for children and youth
with disabilities, school wide positive behavior support, and
progress monitoring.
For the past 16 years Dr. Yell has conducted
extensive research on legal issues in special education. His
primary goal has been to extrapolate principles from legislation and
litigation, communicate them to parents, teachers and administrators
in a clear, nonlegal manner, and to assist school districts in the
formation of legally sound, research-based, policies. He has
published over 60 journal articles, 2 textbooks (The Law and
Special Education, 2nd edition, and No Child Left
Behind published by Merrill/Prentice Hall) 12 book chapters, and
has conducted numerous workshops on many aspects of special
education law.
Since joining USC, Dr. Yell has directed the
teacher-training program in emotional and behavioral disorders at
USC. He is also the lead author of the forthcoming textbook
Educating Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in
General and Special Education Classrooms, also published by
Merrill/Prentice Hall. Finally, he has recently started
working on The Special Education Resource Book: Developing
and Implementing Legally Sound and Educationally Appropriate Special
Education Programs, to be published by Sopris West. He has
conducted numerous local, state, national, and international
workshops.
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