Francis Tabone

Francis Tabone is the Head of School for the Cooke Center for Learning and Development. Cooke Center Schools serve children and young adults from kindergarten to the age of twenty one with special needs. He has worked to develop programs and models of special education in the multiple schools that Cooke Center runs. Dr. Tabone has been both a teacher and administrator for the Department of Education in New York City helping to develop innovative programming for special needs students. He is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and is the Author of Autism, The Ultimate Teen Guide, published by Rowman and Littlefield.