Academic Studies

• EDD Special Education/Instructional Design – USC
• MA Educational Psychology – CSUN
• BA Psychology – UCLA

Research

Awarded Bureau of Health & Education Doctorial Fellowship in Mental Retardation (USC). Dissertation, “What Happens to the Retarded Child When He Grows Up?” selected as lead paper by The Journal of Exceptional Children and popularized in Psychology Today.

Awarded Federal Research Grants to develop “best practice” instructional models to teach students with moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities. Research findings currently practiced in schools throughout USA. Professor Of Special Education, Graduate Division, CSULA, before joining the private sector. In other words, unlike most publishers of materials for Special Education, James Stanfield has been there. He knows the curriculum for students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, knows how they learn best, and knows what support materials teachers need to teach them.

Teaching/Research Experience

• Classroom Teacher, L.A. City Schools, Students with Mild/Moderate Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Professor of Special Education, Dept. of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Graduate Division, CSULA
• Project Director, The McDonald Ave Project federally funded research program to test instructional design strategies for students with Moderate Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

After 12 years of classroom teaching, Dr. Stanfield left academia founded the James Stanfield Publishing Company to produce and distribute VideoModeling based instructional programs for special needs students; to teach as he teaches best, through visual media.

In the last 30 years the company has produced numerous Researched based DVD programs for K-12 Special & At-Risk students. Among our best sellers are: BeCOOL, the most widely used conflict resolution program in America; First Impressions, the first educational program to use VideoModeling as a featured instructional technique; LifeSmart, a “Life 101” series that teaches over 300 essential life/social skills; First Job Survival Skills, award winning series that illustrates essential job-social skills that employers consider necessary to get and keep a job; CIRCLES: Intimacy and Relationships, one of the most popular and widely used programs in Special Education. Teaches the relationship between levels of intimacy and appropriate social/sexual behavior; Life Horizons, physiological and social aspects of sexuality for special needs students; LifeFacts, six part basic social/sexual curriculum with Teaching Illustrations; The Transitions Curriculum, adopted as core material by most transitional programs in America and Canada. Visit www.stanfield.com for a complete listing of Stanfield award winning DVD Programs.