Thomas Peter Gumpel

 

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HaChayil 31/8

Division of Special Education

Jerusalem

School of Education

Israel, 97891

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Jerusalem, Israel 91905

Phone

Phone

+972-02-582-8468

+972-02-588-2165

tgumpel@vms.huji.ac.il

+972-02-588-2045 (Fax)

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D.

Special Education

University of California, Berkeley; San Francisco State University

Dissertation title: Social skills training with mentally retarded adults: An analysis of mentally retarded adults’ interpretation of non-verbal facial expression, 1993

MA

Education

University of California, Berkeley. 1990.

BA

Special Education

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Minor in speech pathology and audiology, art history and English literature. June 1983.

 

Awards

 

1990

Herbert J. Prehm Outstanding Student Presentation Award.       Division on Mental Retardation, Council for Exceptional Children.

1989

First Place, Psychology and Education. Student Research Competition. San Francisco State University.


 

 

 

Academic Positions

 

10/94 to present

Lecturer. Division of Special Education, School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel.

 

 

10/94 to 6/95

Adjunct Lecturer. David Yellin Teacher’s College. Beit HaKerem, Jerusalem. In joint program in special education with the School of Education of the Hebrew University

 

 

9/93 to 9/94

Instructor. Division of Special Education, School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel 91905.

 

 

9/89 to 6/93

Lecturer. Sonoma State University, Department of Special Education. East Cotati, California.

 

 

8/95 to 5/90

Lecturer. San Francisco State University. Department of Special Education, San Francisco, California.

 

 

8/88 to 12/88

Graduate Student Instructor. “Curriculum Development for the Learning Handicapped Student”. Department of Special Education. San Francisco State University, San Francisco. Robert Gaylord-Ross, Instructor.

 

 

9/88 to 6/89

Graduate Student Instructor. “Learning from Text.” Student Learning Center and the Graduate School of Education. University of California, Berkeley. Robert Ruddell, Supervisor.

 

 

8/87 to 12/88

Research Assistant. “National Commission on Testing and Public Policy.” Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. Bernard R. Gifford, Principal Investigator.


 

 

 

9/82 to 6/84

Graduate Student Instructor. “Neurophysiology for Special Educators and Advisors.” Department of Special Education. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Yosef Li-Ran, Instructor.

 

 

Teaching Positions

 

9/85 to 5/89

Instructor. “Vocational/Living Skills Program.” College of Alameda, Alameda, California.


 

9/84 to 6/85

Assistant Principal/Supervisor. Broshim Elementary School for the Learning Disabled. Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

 

9/82 to 6/85

Teacher. Broshim Elementary School for the Learning Disabled. Ministry of Education, Israel.

 

 

Credentials

 

 

DSPS

Disabled Students Program Services, Instruction and Services Credential for California Community Colleges, specialization: Developmental Disabilities and Learning Disabilities. 1987.

 

 

Special Education

Secondary Special Education, Israel. June 1985.

 

Professional Service

 

 

 

Field Reviewer, US Office of Education. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services. Washington, D.C. (1993).

 

 


 

 

Conference Chair, International Conference on Research and Practice in Attention Deficit Disorders. Jerusalem, May 1995.

 

 

 

Consultant, Knesset Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Special Education.

 

 

 

Conference Chair, Beit Issie Shapiro’s 2nd International Conference on Developmental Disabilities in the Community: Policy, Practice and Research. Jerusalem, May 1998.

 

 

 

Committee to Reduce Youth Violence, Chaired by MK Matan Vilnai

 

 

 

Conduct extensive inservice training and workshops for schools regarding school violence. Under the auspices of the “School of Senior Educational Personnel” and the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport.

 

 

Memberships

 

 

 

Council of Exceptional Children

 

Division of Research

 

Division on Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

 

Division on Learning Disabilities

 

Division of International Special Education Services

 

 

Editorial Responsibilities

 

 

1994

Ad hoc reviewer: Journal of Behavioral Education

1995

Guest Editor, Special Series on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Journal of Learning Disabilities

1996

Ad hoc reviewer: Research and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities

1997

Ad hoc reviewer: The US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation

1997

Ad hoc reviewer: The Israel Foundation of Science

1997

Ad hoc reviewer, Israel Policy Analysis Institute

1999

Editorial Board, Behavioral Disorders

2000

Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

2000

Editorial Board, Journal of International Special Education Needs

 

Grants Received

 

2002

Israel Academy of the Sciences. Social skills training without training social skills: Towards refocusing a conceptual model of social skills training for children with special educational needs. $58,000

 

 

2000

Martin Buber Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Violence in Palestinian Schools. $25,000

 

 

1999

National Council of Jewish Women: Validation of the activation model of social skills deficit. With Hila Yuval. $8,000

 

 

1998

Netherlands Israel Research Programme: The development of an itinerant special education program in Palestine. With Sana Awartani, Ph. D., Al Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. $50,000

 

 

1996-1997

National Council of Jewish Women. An investigation of multicultural aspects of school readiness. With Esther Cohen, Ph. D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. $25,000.

 

 

1996

National Council of Jewish Women. An investigation of relevant discriminative stimuli for violent behavior in the classroom. With Hagit Inbar. $3,500.

 

 

 

Academic Supervision

 

 

 

Supervised 15 M.A. theses

 

 

 

Currently co-supervising 2 Ph.D. dissertations


 

 

Thomas Peter Gumpel

 

Publications

 

 

 

Doctorate

 

 

 

Gumpel, T. P. (1993). Social skills training with adults with mental retardation: An analysis of the ability of adults with mental retardation to perceive and interpret non-verbal facial expression. University of California: Berkeley.

 

 

 

Chapters in Books/Non-refereed Articles

 

 

    1.                

Gumpel, T. (1990). Social skills training with mentally retarded adults: A reformulation of a social-cognitive approach. In R. Gaylord-Ross (Ed.), Readings in Vocational Special Education. (Pp. 370-428). San Francisco: San Francisco State University.

 

 

       2.                

Siegel, S., Park, H. S., Gumpel, T., Ford, J., Tappe, P., & Gaylord-Ross, R. (1990). Research in vocational special education. In R. Gaylord-Ross (Ed.), Issues and research in special education (Vol. 1). (Pp. 173-242). New York: Teacher's College Press.

 

 

    3.               3.

Gumpel, T. P. (1999). Special Education in Israel. In C. R. Reynolds & E. Fletcher-Janzen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Special Education (Vol. 2, pp. 995-998). New York: Wiley.

 

 

    4.               3.

Meadan, H., & Gumpel, T. P. (2002). Special Education in Israel. Teaching Exceptional Children, 34(5), 16-20.


 

 

 

 

Refereed Journal Articles

 

 

      5.               4.

Gumpel, T. (1994). Social Competence and Social Skills Training for Persons with Mental Retardation: An Expansion of a Behavioral Paradigm. Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 29, 194-201.

 

 

      6.               5.

Gumpel, T., & Wilson, M. (1996). Application of a Rasch analysis to the examination of the perception of facial affect among adults with mental retardation. Research and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 17(2), 161-171.

 

 

      7.               6.

Gumpel, T. (1996). Special education law in Israel. Journal of Special Education, 29(4), 457-468.

 

 

         8.                

Meadan, H. & Gumpel, T. (1996). The use of a token economy and self-management procedure with kindergarteners with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder [in Hebrew]. Sugiot b’Chinuch Meyuchad ve Shikum, 11(1), 23-32.

 

 

      9.               8.

Gumpel, T., Wilson, M., & Shalev, R. (1998). An IRT examination of the Conners Teacher’s Rating Scale. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(6), 525-532. (lead article)

 

 

  10.               9.

Gumpel, T., & Frank, R. (1999). An expansion of the peer-tutoring paradigm: Cross-age peer tutoring of social skills among socially rejected boys. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 32(1), 115-118.

 

 

     11.                

Gumpel, T. P. (1999). Use of item response theory to develop a measure of first-grade readiness. Psychology in the Schools, 36(4), 285-293.

 

 

     12.                

Gumpel, T. (2000). Special education in Israel in 2000: Where have we come from and where are we headed? [in Hebrew]. Sugiot b’Chinuch Meyuchad ve Shikum, 14(2), 71-82.

 

 

13.               15.

Gumpel, T., & David, S. (2000). Toward a reconceptualization of social skills deficits: Exploring the efficacy of self-monitoring as an alternative to social skills training, Behavioral Disorders, 25(2), 131-141.

 

 

14.               11.

Gumpel, T., & Golan, H. (2000) Teaching game playing skills using a self-monitoring treatment package: Implications for understanding social skills deficits. Psychology in the Schools, 37, 253-261.

 

 

15.               12.

Gumpel, T., Tappe, P., & Araki, C. (2000). The continuing search for qualitative differences: The use of polytomous item response theory and Phenomenography to examine differences in social problem-solving between adults with and without mental retardation. Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities, 35(3), 259-268.

 

 

     16.                

Gumpel, T., & Meadan, H. Children’s perceptions of school-based violence. (2000). British Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 391-404.

 

 

     17.                

Yogev, T., & Gumpel, T. P. (2001). Self-management: A plan to improve attendance in a girl's lock-down facility [in Hebrew]. Sugiot b'Hinuch Meyuchad v'bShikum, 15(1), 83-93.

 

 

18.               17.

Gumpel, T. P., & Nativ-Ari-Am, H. (2001). The experimental evaluation of a technology for teaching complex social skills to visually handicapped adolescents. Journal of Vision Impairment and Blindness, 95(2), 95-107.

 

 

     19.                

Stein, D., Pat, R., Blank, S, Dagan, Y, Barak, Y., & Gumpel, T. (2001). Sleep disturbances in adolescents diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 35, 268-275.

 

 

     20.                

Meadan, H., & Gumpel, T. P. (2002). Special Education in Israel. Teaching Exceptional Children, 34(5), 16-20.


 

 

 

 

In Press

 

 

     21.                

Gumpel, T. P., & Awartani, S. An examination of competing views of social justice and special education: A comparison of views of Israeli and Palestinian student teachers and teachers. Journal of Special Education (29 pp.)

 

 

     22.                

Gumpel, T. P., & Vainroj, K. How do young adults remember their childhood social status? A retrospective analysis of peer-rejection in childhood and adolescence, and protective factors predictive of its remission. Social Psychology of Education. (32 pp.)

 

 

 

Submitted

 

 

23.               18.

Cohen, E., & Gumpel, T. A comparison of perceptions of readiness for first grade between kindergarten teachers, school psychologists and mothers of ready and not ready children. (26 pp.)

 

 

     24.                

Gumpel, T. P. Validation of the activation model of social skills deficit: Is a functional analysis necessary? (26 pp.)

 

 

 

Presentations in Conferences

 

 

      1.               1.

Gumpel, T. (1990, April). Social skills training with mentally retarded adults: A reformulation of a social-cognitive approach. Paper presented at the meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Toronto, Canada.

 

 

      2.               2.

Gumpel, T. (1993, December). Special education law in Israel vs. the US: Separate but unequal? Invited paper presented at the Conference of Jewish Special Education. Tel Aviv, Israel.

 

 

      3.               3.

Gumpel, T. (1995, April). The application of a Rasch analysis to the investigation of the perception of facial affect among mentally retarded respondents. Invited paper at the Eighth International Objective Measurement Workshop. University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

      4.               4.

Gumpel, T., Wilson, M., Zitter, R., & Shalev, R. (1995, May). An IRT examination of the Conners Teacher Rating Scale. Paper presented at the International Conference on Research and Practice in Attention Deficit Disorders, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

 

      5.               5.

Gumpel, T., & Sherman, R. (1995, May). An examination and comparison of social attributional thought for children without disabilities, children with learning disabilities and children with ADHD. Paper presented at the International Conference on Research and Practice in Attention Deficit Disorders, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

 

      6.               6.

Gumpel, T. (1997, September). Special education in Israel: Ad hoc segregation? Paper presented at the annual conference on Health and Human Rights, Gaza City.

 

 

      7.               7.

Gumpel, T. (1998, April). Comparative special education: Lessons to be learned for policy and research. Symposium presented at the annual conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Minneapolis.

 

 

      8.               8.

Gumpel, T. (1998, April). The relationship between academia and policy makers: A doomed marriage? Paper presented at the annual conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Minneapolis.

 

 

      9.               9.

Gumpel, T. (1998, July). Skills deficits or performance deficits? Self-regulatory mechanisms in social skills training. Keynote address presented at Beit Issie Shapiro’s 2nd International Conference on Developmental Disabilities in the Community: Policy, Practice and Research. Jerusalem.

 

 

10.               10.

 Gumpel, T., & Golan, H. (1999, March). Teaching Game-Playing Social Skills Using A Self-Monitoring Treatment Package. Paper presented at the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Group conference. London.

 

 

11.               11.

 Gumpel, T., & Golan, H. (1999, March). Toward A Reconceptualization Of Social Skills Deficits: Exploring The Efficacy Of Self-Monitoring As An Alternative To Social Skills Training. Paper presented at the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Group conference. London.

 

 

12.               11.

 Gumpel, T. P., & Awartani, S. (2000, March). Competing notions of social justice and their impact on special education policy. Paper presented at the Council of Exceptional Children World Conference 2000, Vancouver, Canada.

 

 

13.                

Gumpel, T. P., & Awartani, S. (2000, July). Social Justice and Disability. Paper presented at the International Special Education World Conference, Manchester, UK.

 

 

14.                

 Gumpel, T. P. (2002, April). “Keeping your eye on the ball” or “Research on Social Justice and Special Education during Wartime” or “Research on Justice and Justice in Research.” Paper presented at the Council of Exceptional Children Conference 2002, New York.