Parnel Wickham, Ph.D.
Parnel Wickham, PhD, is professor of special education at Dowling College, Oakdale,
New York. Her research interests include the history of intellectual disability,
particularly in early New England. She has spent her entire career in the field of special
education, first as founder and director of the Center for Handicapped Children,
Inc., in Buffalo, New York, and then as education director of the Syracuse (NY) Developmental
Center.