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Don Mesibov

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Don Mesibov is the author and coauthor of six books, five of which are focused on the education field. His most recent, published this past October is "Mesibov, Schopler, and TEACCH: Changing the World for Parents, and People with Autism." This past June,2022, he co-authored, “Helping Students Take Control of Their Own Learning,” a book with 279 sample student-centered activities. A memoir, published in 2010, focused on the last nine months of his mother’s life when, in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s, Don, and his wife Susan and their two daughters, brought her to live with them; their son, out of the nest, frequently visited. Upon graduation from Boston University with a degree in communications/public relations, Don went to work at the checkout counter of the Star Market in Brookline, Massachusetts. “I wanted to raise money to buy an overnight summer camp,” he explained, “but I had no funds of my own; so I earned enough at the super market to live on and travelled weekends trying to locate investors. Although I ultimately failed to raise sufficient funding, the experience getting to know people in a different context has served me well through life,” he says. Don currently works as an educational consultant, training teachers to actively engage students in the learning process. During a varied career he has worked as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman; a summer camp counselor, then athletic director; a child-care counselor at a school for children with special needs; a reporter, then editor, of a weekly newspaper; a teachers’ union labor relations specialist; and for the past 28 years he has been director of The Institute for Learning Centered Education, an organization he founded. Don is an avid gardener with 175 flower gardens at his home in Potsdam, New York, near the Canadian border. His wife Susan tends to nine raised beds which provide food for the summer as well as products that can be frozen and partaken during the long, cold Potsdam winters. “Our father, and grandfather (mine and Gary’s), each died of heart attacks at the age of 52, so I have always been aware of the need to exercise. When I was younger,” Don continues, “I would run a lot, but I found running in circles to be exceedingly boring. However, I can get out in the gardens at 8 am and still be working, and enjoying it, when Susan yells from the house, “Don’t you know it’s getting dark?”
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