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Cambridge Who’s Who® Contributing Author Kerri Duncan, Ed.D.
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Cambridge Who's Who Member Kerri Duncan, Ed.D.
Cambridge Who’s Who® member Kerri Duncan, Ed.D. received a Master of Science in Education in 1990 from Southwest Missouri State University and recently earned a Doctor of Education from Nova Southeast University. For the past 27 years, she has been dedicated to the quality education of children with learning disabilities and autism. From 1985 to 1991, Dr. Duncan served as a special education teacher (K-12). She became a principal in 1991. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at Drury University in Springfield, Mo., where she instructs graduate student coursework in exceptional child education.
Dr. Duncan’s greatest accomplishment was starting the autism program at Rivendale Institute of Learning, a private school that provides alternative education and enrichment to students with learning disabilities and autism. Located in Springfield, Mo., the school recognizes individual differences, and provides a learning environment that emphasizes social, emotional, physical and intellectual development. As the director of the school, Dr. Duncan develops programs to address the needs of children with learning disabilities, language delays and autism. Since its establishment in 1985, the school has tripled in size, while additional locations continue to open throughout the United States.
Additionally, Dr. Duncan founded Rivendale Extension Services, a 501(c)(3), whose mission is to raise awareness for children with special needs and provide assisted special education programs. To further assist disadvantaged families with children who experience learning differences, she formed a partnership with the Community Foundations of the Ozarks, where an endowment fund was established to provide scholarships for families so that their children would have the opportunity to receive alternative educational programming.
Kerri Duncan is currently developing the coursework for an autism certification graduate program in the state of Missouri. She has received professional recognition, and, in 2003, was named among the Top 20 Most Influential Women by the Springfield Business Journal, and was one of the top three finalists for the Athena Award. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Service to Mankind Award. She has been a recipient of the Women Mean Business Award, presented to her by the Missouri Business and Professional Women’s Organization, and, in 2006, she received the Difference Maker Award from a local Decision Makers Network organization.
For more information about the Rivendale Institute of Learning, visit www.rivendaleinstitute.com, or call Kerri Duncan, Ed.D.: (417) 864-7921.
Article(s) by Kerri Duncan
- Dyslexia New!
- Autism and Communication New!
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