Joseph R. Boyle (Ph.D., Special Education, University of Kansas) is an associate professor of special education at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has taught or currently teaches students in undergraduate to doctoral programs that include courses in: methods and materials for special education, collaboration and consultation, introduction to special education and special education law, assessment in special education, special education behavioral management, language disabilities, critical issues in special education, and technology in special education classrooms. Dr. Boyle is also a former special education teacher. In his classroom and other settings, he taught students with high incidence disabilities (e.g., learning disabilities, mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, traumatic brain injury, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, and Asperger's syndrome). In addition, he collaborated and co-taught with general education teachers and other school professionals. Through research, he has developed a number of classroom interventions for students with high incidence disabilities in the areas of reading, writing, and note-taking. He has co-authored four special education casebooks and numerous journal articles.
