David Scanlon is an associate professor of special education in Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development. He is also the Administrator of the SpedEx Consultation program, an innovative IEP dispute resolution option in Massachusetts. Scanlon has served as Administrator since 2010. In that role he has collaborated to design the program and evaluate its practices and outcomes. He oversees all SpedEx cases. Scanlon is also Editor of "Learning Disabilities Research & Practice" and a Fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities.