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Dale Borman Fink is an assistant professor in the Education Department at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts. His involvement with child care, early childhood education, after-school and youth programs, and children with disabilities has spanned more than three decades. He spent 12 years as a teacher and administrator in preschool and school-age child care in the Boston area, followed by 8 years conducting training and research at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. In connection with a national study, he wrote School-Age Children with Special Needs: What Do They Do When School Is Out? (1988). His most recent book, Making a Place for Kids with Disabilities, was published in 2000 and issued as a paperback in 2001. He is also the author of Control the Climate, Not the Children: Discipline in School-Age Care (1995).
Dale holds a B.A. from Harvard (1972), a master’s in early childhood education from Antioch University (1979), and a Ph.D. in special education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997). He was co-director and then consultant for the Map to Inclusive Child Care Project, a technical assistance initiative of the Child Care Bureau, from 1997 to 2000. He was principal investigator in an evaluation study of Connecticut’s statewide mental health consultation services to child care in 2003. He also has authored several training curricula on inclusive practices in child care and youth development programs.
Dale lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He and his partner have a son who attends kindergarten and after-school care. For more information, see his Web site at http://www.includeallkids.com.
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