ABOUT

DR. ELLENMORRIS TIEGERMAN

Dr. Ellenmorris Tiegerman is the Executive Director of Tiegerman School and a Professor Emeritus at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychology Studies at Adelphi University.  As the founder of Tiegerman School, Dr. Tiegerman is responsible for the creation and the development of the preschool, school age and integrated programs within the School. 

In 1994, Dr. Tiegerman served on Governor Pataki’s Transition Team for Education.  She was appointed in 1995 by means of an Assembly appointment to the 21st Century Schools Committee.  In 1996, Dr. Tiegerman was appointed by means of a gubernatorial recommendation to the New York State Early Intervention Coordinating Council.  Most recently, Dr. Tiegerman served as Chairperson of the Parent Involvement Committee.

Dr. Tiegerman has served on the faculty of several Universities in the New York Metropolitan area.  She has functioned as the Director of the Adelphi University Speech and Hearing Center as well as being the Founding Director of the Adelphi University Preschool Language Stimulation Program.

Dr. Tiegerman holds a Ph.D. from the City University of New York.  She also has Masters degrees in:  Speech Language Pathology (M.S. and M.Phil.), Special Education (M.S.) and Social Work (MSW).  She has extensive experience in the areas of child language development and disorders.  She has been involved in many research projects and is the author of textbooks in the areas of language disorders, early intervention, parent language training and childhood autism.  Dr. Tiegerman’s area of clinical expertise is autism spectrum disorders.

ELLENMORRIS’S BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Co-authored Language and Communication Disorders in Children; Now in its 6th edition, published by Allyn and Bacon, remains to be one of the leading University textbooks on this topic in the United States

  • Co-authored Response to Intervention; published by National Professional Resources, Inc.

  • Co-authored Language Disorders in Children: Real Families, Real Issues, and Real Interventions; published Pearson Merrill

  • Co-authored textbook Collaborative Decision Making: The Pathway to Inclusion; published by Prentice Hall

  • Authored textbook Language and Communication Intervention in Preschool Children; published by Merrill

  • Co-authored Babysignals; published by Walker