Anne Marie Richardson-Gibbs, M.A.
Anne Marie Richardson-Gibbs is an early childhood special educator and has provided inclusion services for the past twenty years in both community-based preschool and public school settings. Currently Ms. Richardson-Gibbs works for the El Monte City School District providing inclusion support to preschool and early elementary age children with disabilities. Ms. Richardson-Gibbs has been the director of an early intervention program providing services to infants, toddlers and their families from the East Los Angeles community and worked as a statewide early intervention program specialist for the California Department of Education. She was the training coordinator for Project Support, a federally funded personnel training grant, creating inclusion support inservices, training videos and a manual for early childhood special educators. Ms. Richardson-Gibbs has taught ECSE classes at California State University, Los Angeles and served as chairperson for both the Infant Development Association of California and the Los Angeles Early Intervention Directors’ Forum. She continues to provide trainings and inservices for Head Start and school district personnel on inclusion support, behavior management, and autism and developmental delays in young children.