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Carmen Y. Reyes, MSE, has more than twenty years of experience as a self-contained special
education teacher, resource room teacher, and educational diagnostician. As a teacher, Carmen
has taught at all levels, from kindergarten to post secondary. Carmen is an expert in the
application of behavior management strategies, and in teaching students with learning or
behavior problems. Her classroom background, in New York City and her native Puerto Rico,
includes ten years teaching emotionally disturbed/ behaviorally disordered children and four
years teaching students with a learning disability or mental retardation. Carmen has a bachelor’s
degree in psychology (University of Puerto Rico) and a master’s degree in special education with
a specialization in emotional disorders (Long Island University, Brooklyn: New York). She also
has extensive graduate training in psychology. Currently, Carmen is a full-time writer. In her
articles and books, she focuses in assessing children’s learning capacities, alternative teaching
procedures for low achieving students, and psycho-educational techniques and interventions.
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