Jill C. Dardig

Jill C. Dardig is Professor Emerita of Education at Ohio Dominican University where she trained special education teachers for 30 years. At ODU she was awarded the Booth-Ferris Master Faculty Award and was selected as an ODU Centennial Person of Influence. A longtime member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Joseph Home for women with disabilities, Dr. Dardig has also served as a curriculum specialist for the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities and as a consultant at Centro da Vilarińha, a program that teaches independent living and vocational skills to teenagers and young adults with developmental disabilities in Porto, Portugal. She has been a visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, and presented workshops for teachers and parents in Europe, South America, and Asia. The coauthor of Let’s Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change Your Child’s Behavior (Collective Book Studio, 2022), Dr. Dardig has written several other books and publications about and for parents including Involving Parents of Students with Special Needs: 25 Ready-to-Use Strategies (Corwin Press, 2008). Jill has an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts.