Henry J. Roth

Henry J. Roth, Ph. D., has been the Principal of the Jewish Children's Bureau Therapeutic Day School in Chicago, Illinois, since 1989. He is an Adjunct Professor of Special Education, and teaches Masters level courses at Northeastern University in Chicago. From 2005-2008, he took a leave to fill the position as Executive Director at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago. Before moving to the Chicago area, Dr. Roth was principal of the Duke University Child Psychiatry Day School from 1975-1989.

Dr. Roth received his Ph. D. degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 1977. He graduated with his B. A. in Psychology from DePaul University in Chicago, in 1971. He received a Masters degree in Special Education from Northeastern Illinois University in 1972; and a Masters in Human Development from Governor's State University, in Park Forest, Illinois, in 1974.

Dr. Roth has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Special Education with Northeastern Illinois University and National-Louis University in the Chicago area. He was a Clinical Associate Professor at Duke University from 1982-1989. He has written more than sixty articles and publications in the area of working with child and adolescent students with emotional and behavioral disorders.