Email: ylatunde@apu.edu
Yvette Latunde, Ed.D.
Los Angeles Coordinator, Professor of Special Education
School of Education
Profile
Yvette Latunde’s passion is equipping future and current educators to better serve children with disabilities and diverse backgrounds. She has worked in special education for the past 12 years. She has served in numerous roles in education including: early childhood education interventionist, public school teacher for interrelated and self-contained learning disabilities (K–12), special education director, coordinator of disabilities services for a non profit (preschool), and instructor for continuing education courses related to IDEA and challenging behaviors.
Yvette has extensive experience leading self-assessments and utilizing tools to improve teacher and classroom quality. Her personal background as a parent of a child with severe disabilities, coupled with knowledge of the law, administrative perceptions, teacher perceptions, and best practices for inclusion, facilitates her vision for a better future for children with disabilities.
Yvette serves APU as a site coordinator and co-chair of the moderate/severe disabilities committee. She is always excited to assist non profits, private schools, and churches in enhancing educational leaders’ capacity to serve children with special needs and improve the quality of overall services.
Yvette has extensive experience leading self-assessments and utilizing tools to improve teacher and classroom quality. Her personal background as a parent of a child with severe disabilities, coupled with knowledge of the law, administrative perceptions, teacher perceptions, and best practices for inclusion, facilitates her vision for a better future for children with disabilities.
Yvette serves APU as a site coordinator and co-chair of the moderate/severe disabilities committee. She is always excited to assist non profits, private schools, and churches in enhancing educational leaders’ capacity to serve children with special needs and improve the quality of overall services.
Education
Ed.D. – Organizational Leadership, with an emphasis in special education and technology, Nova Southeastern University
M.A. – Special Education, Clark Atlanta University
B.A. - Child Development, California State University, Sacramento
Credentials/Certifications
Teacher certification – Specific Learning Disabilities, Clark Atlanta University
M.A. – Special Education, Clark Atlanta University
B.A. - Child Development, California State University, Sacramento
Credentials/Certifications
Teacher certification – Specific Learning Disabilities, Clark Atlanta University
Professional/Scholarly Presentations
Presentations
Preventing challenging behaviors in the general classroom, presented by Yvette Latunde, Fresno Migrant Head Start, 2005.
IDEIA Reauthorization in California, Early Intervention Services, IFSP, & Discipline, presented by Yvette Latunde, Mandy Leigh, Esq., M.E.L. & Tamara Loughrey, Esq., Lorman Education Services, San Francisco, 2006.
Preventing challenging behaviors in the general classroom, presented by Yvette Latunde, Fresno Migrant Head Start, 2005.
IDEIA Reauthorization in California, Early Intervention Services, IFSP, & Discipline, presented by Yvette Latunde, Mandy Leigh, Esq., M.E.L. & Tamara Loughrey, Esq., Lorman Education Services, San Francisco, 2006.
Expertise
Challenging behaviors
Diverse students in higher education
Early Childhood Special Education
Inclusion
Courses Taught
Counseling, Collaboration, and Consultation (SPED 535)
Implementation of Special Education Legislation (SPED 547)
Implementation of Special Education Legislation (SPED 547)
Note: This information is current for the 2008-09 academic year. For additional information, please contact the appropriate office.
