Audrey Cohan

Audrey Cohan is the Senior Dean for Research and Scholarship at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. She began her career as a special education teacher in New York City working with students with special needs in both self-contained and resource room settings. Her first book was published in 1995 titled Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse: A Handbook for Teachers and Administrators. This co-authored book was an outgrowth of her dissertation work, which focused on child sexual abuse within schools. Audrey co-edited a five-volume Breaking the Mold series about educational innovation with Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles about English language learners including Differentiating Between Learning Disabilities and Typical Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study and Piloting a Pre-referral Data Collection Tool: A Documentary Account, as she has New York State certification in special education and TESOL. The textbook published in 2016, Serving English Language Learners earned the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Most Promising New Textbook Award. Her other co-authored book publications include Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014) and America’s Peace-minded Educator: John Dewey (2016), and Team Up, Speak Up, Fire Up! Educators, Students, and the Community Working Together to Support English Learners (2020) and most recently, From Equity Insights to Action: Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners published the summer of 2021.