View our EdD Early Childhood specialization completion requirements
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
- Core courses (50 cr.)
- Capstone (10 cr.)
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
Courses
In the EdD Early Childhood Education specialization, you’ll build skills and progress toward your final capstone project in every course.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
PhD completion program courses help you return to doctoral work, match with an advisor, and stay on track to finishing your dissertation.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
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Courses
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Grace Lappin completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University. Her dissertation was awarded the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments (CEC-DV I) Dissertation of the Year Award in 2003. She was certified by CEC as a Professionally Recognized Special Educator and Clinical Diagnostician, by the International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) as an Infant Massage Instructor (CIMI) and by Foundations for Healthy Family Living (FHFL) as an Instructor of Infant Massage Practice (CIIM). She has written and presented internationally on many subject areas including early childhood typical and atypical development, blindness, family literacy, teachers' perceptions of diversity and multiculturalism, attachment formation in infants with exceptionalities, infant massage, and cross-cultural analysis of caregiver interactions. Dr. Lappin has taught in traditional universities in both undergraduate and graduate-level programs, as well as non-traditional, and on-line programs. In her private practice she addresses issues of child development, attachment, family and sibling support, and developmental variations. Dr. Lappin is also a member of the Board of Directors and an Educational Consultant for The Hope Foundation for Autism Awareness. She is very pleased to continue her work with Walden University as a doctoral faculty mentor and course instructor.
EDUC 8800 - Research
PhD, Columbia University
MEd, Columbia University
MPhil, Columbia University
MA, New York University
Hope Foundation for Autism Awareness, Board of Directors - Providenciales
New Investigator Award, World Association for Infa, , 2006
Lappin, G. (2007). International Perspectives on Multiculturalism and Disability Education: Voices from the Field. Journal of International Conference on Children’s Rights and Education in the 21st Century.
Lappin, G., White-Clarke, R. (2007). Diversity training, educational equity, and teacher preparation programs: The promise of multiculturalism.
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