Katrina R. Sparks, PhD, Special Education Specialist with Spark a Child

Get to know Special Education Specialist Dr. Katrina R. Sparks, who serves the population of New York.

Dr. Katrina R. Sparks is an educator, author, and scholar with her private practice Spark a Child. She is a Special Education Teacher, a consultant in Early Intervention, and CPSE (Committee of Pre-school Education). Her responsibilities include Teacher of Speech and Hearing Handicapped, S.E.I.T (Special Education Itinerant Teacher), ABA Applied Behavior Analysis, and Education Evaluator. She is an educator whose area of concentration is in Special Education. She has taught in the development and instruction of the special needs population for over 25 years.

Dr. Sparks is a featured author, recognized by ESSENCE magazine as a woman who turned personal interest into a profitable endeavor. She has also been featured in the Culvert Chronicles, and The New York Amsterdam Newspaper. Her accomplishments also include a published dissertation entitled, “The Individualized Education Plan: Parent Perspectives on the Feasibility and Effectiveness of the Individualized Educational Plan.

Dr. Sparks completed her undergraduate degree from Herbert Lehman College where she majored in African-American Studies with a concentration in Early Childhood Education, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1993. Furthering her education she earned her Masters in Special Education from Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus in 1998. She then earned a second Masters degree in School Administration and Supervision from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts at North Adams, MA in 2002 and a third Masters from Argosy University in Educational Specialist/Educational Leadership in 2003. In 2007 she earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Special Education from Capella University.

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