Nancy Sall

Nancy has been teaching in higher education for over 25 years. Prior to her work as a teacher educator, she was a pre-school special education teacher working with children who had significant disabilities and was a special educator/inclusion coordinator in an elementary school (with 3rd and 4th graders). Before joining Hunter she was on faculty in the Early Childhood Education/Special Education Program within the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Previously, she was the project coordinator for numerous federally-funded research grants run through the Developmental Disabilities Center at Roosevelt Hospital, some focusing on communication and others on the development of social relationships of children with DeafBlindness and multiple disabilities. She has also consulted with the NYS DeafBlind Technical Assistance Project. Recent work focuses on social communication development of children with disabilities and promoting parent-teacher partnerships.

• Ed.D. (Curriculum and Teaching) Teachers College, Columbia University
• M.S. (Special Education), Syracuse University
• B.S. (Elementary and Special Education), Boston University
• Teaching Certification in Severe Special Education (0-21) and Elementary Education (K-5)

• SPEDE 707 Research Seminar
• SPEDE 768 Foster Development of Children
• SPEDE 773 Family-Professional Partnerships
• SPEDE 776 Introductory Field Experiences
• Fieldwork Supervision

Communication and social development of children with significant disabilities; Inclusion; Family-Professional Partnerships; Project-Based learning in special education.

• Bleiweiss, J., & Sall, N. (2025). Social communication foundations: Examining interventions to promote serve and return and joint attention. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00400599251346783
• Sall, N., Rikhye, C. H., Newsum, D. C., & Hoda, S. J. (2025). Sharing perspectives for educating young children with disabilities: Developing family and professional partnerships. Routledge.
• Sall, N. & Rikhye, C.H. (2022). Dimensions of communication: A manual to assess the communication skills and behaviors of individuals with disabilities. Council for Exceptional Children.
• Rikhye, C. & Sall, N. (2015). An initial analysis of differentiated instruction in pre-service early childhood teacher education. Delta Journal of Education, 5(2), 59-70.