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Department of Education - Special Education

Special Education Program Overview

MacMurray College has a long proud history of preparing teachers to work with students with special needs. In the Special Education Program, students are prepared using the rich Core Curriculum and General Education Courses in combination with specialized courses preparing reflective practitioners.

Programs of Study

See the Catalog for specific requirements. 

See also: Education of the Hearing Impaired, Elementary Education

Faculty    

Dr. Dawn Peterman Allred
Director of the Special Education Program
Dr. Allred has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, where she also taught from 2000 to 2006. She obtained her Masters of Education there in 2000 and her bachelors degree in communications at the University of Missouri's main campus in Columbia.

Dr. Allred has taught graduate-level courses in psychology related to learning disabilities and special needs. She has taught courses on classroom management, career transition, and teaching methodology. Her students have included classroom teachers completing alternative certification programs who were employed in the St. Louis Public School District, and classroom teachers employed throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.

Previously, Dr. Allred taught on the K-12 level. Her background also includes teaching English as a Second Language to foreign-born adults for the Parkway School District in Creve Coeur, Missouri and working as a research analyst in the communications division of Marshall Field and Co.

Dr. Allred is a member of several professional organizations including the Association of Higher Education and Disability, Kappa Delta Phi (the International Honor Society in Education), Learning Disabilities Association of America, and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

217-479-7168
E-mail:dawn.allred@mac.edu

Bev Johns
Adjunct Faculty
Beverley Holden Johns has 33 years experience working with students with severe behavioral disorders within the public schools of Illinois. She was the founder and the administrator of the Garrison Alternative School for students with severe behavioral disorders in Jacksonville, Illinois and was the coordinator for staff development for the Four Rivers Special Education District. She is now a learning and behavior consultant and enjoys her work as an adjunct instructor for MacMurray College.

She is the lead author of four books including Reduction of School Violence: Alternatives to Suspension; Techniques for Managing Verbally and Physically Aggressive Students; Safe Schools; and most recently Effective Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders. She also recently wrote a workbook to accompany a video for Paraprofessionals entitled: The paraprofessional’s guide to managing student behavior. She is completing work on another book dealing with meeting the needs of students with disabilities in the regular classroom. She also is the lead author of a monograph to be released in early October and has an article soon to be released.

She is the 2000 recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award from the International Council for Exceptional Children, Past International President of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders and is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Education.

She has served as Chair of Governmental Relations for several National and State organizations concerned with the needs of educators and exceptional children.

She is the immediate Past President of the Learning Disabilities Association of Illinois and now serves on the Board of Directors of the National Learning Disabilities Association. She is the editor of the Pioneers Press for the Pioneers Division of the International Council for Exceptional Children. She chairs the statewide special education coalition known as ISELA.

She was the Jacksonville Woman of the Year in 1988. She co-chaired the Business Education Partnership Committee for the Jacksonville Area Chamber of Commerce. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Pathway Services.

She has presented workshops across the United States and has also presented in Canada; Sydney, Australia (keynote); and Warsaw, Poland.

She is a graduate of Catherine Spalding College in Louisville, Kentucky and received a fellowship for her graduate work in special education at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where she completed her M.S. and did additional graduate work. She has also done graduate work at the University of Illinois and Western Illinois University.
E-mail: beverley.johns@mac.edu

Susan Roegge
Adjunct Faculty
Graduated from Illinois State University in 1992 with certification in LD/BK/EMH and Early Childhood. Taught at Winchester elementary School in a Cross Categorical Classroom for two years. In 1995, returned to Illinois State University for master’s degree. At that time was hired as university supervisor working with field based practicum students and student teachers. Completed master’s degree in Administration in 1997. Holds a Type 75 Certificate as well as an Approval in Special Education Supervisory. In the fall of 1997, returned to Jacksonville for a position at Turner Jr. High School where she has held positions in Self-Contained BD/ED and LD/BC/ED Resource. Since 2001, she has been teaching Learning Characteristics of Individuals with Diverse Needs and Abilities and Methods of Instruction for Learners with Diverse Needs and Abilities.

E-mail: susan.roegge@mac.edu

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