PROFESSIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, PERSONAL RESUME'

LARRY WAYNE HOLCOMB, Ed.D.

Phone: (530)-284-7491
P.O. Box 44
Canyon Dam, California 95923
PERSONAL DATA
Wife: Mickey Holcomb
Children: Three - Ginger, Grant, and Laurie
EDUCATION
Undergraduate and Graduate Schools Attended:
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Humboldt State College, Arcata, California
San Diego State College, San Diego, California
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

Degrees Awarded:
Bachelor of Arts, 1960, Humboldt State College
Master of Education, 1969, University of Oregon
* Learning Disabilities and Remedial Education Doctorate of Education, 1970, Un
iversity of Oregon
* Special Education: Learning Disability and Emotionally Disturbed.
CREDENTIALS/LICENSING
General Secondary Teaching (California-Life)
General Pupil Personnel Services (California-Life)
General Administrative
Marriage, Family and Child Counseling
AREAS OF SPECIAL TRAINING, EXPERIENCE AND INTEREST
Pupil Personnel Services Program Development
Educational Accountability
Parenting Programs
Family Counseling
Educational In-service Programming
Stress Management
Support Services and Delivery Systems
Educational Programming for Learning Disabilities
* Referral Procedures
* Screening - Diagnostic Techniques
* Prescriptive Programming
* Selection and Development of Materials and Teaching Techniques
* Teacher Implementation Techniques and Evaluation Procedures
Computer and Non-computer Based Retrieval Systems for Material and Human Resourc
es
Parent Programs, Hearing Impaired and Deaf
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Education;
1960-63 Classroom Teacher, Counselor, Remedial Reading, Learning Disabled, De
l Norte County High School District, Crescent City, California.
 1963-65 School Psychometrist, Psychologist, Crescent Union School District, C
rescent City, California.
1965-68 District Psychologist, Del Norte County Unified School District, Cres
cent City, California.
1967-68 Instructor, Psychology, College of the Redwoods, Crescent City, Calif
ornia.
1968-69 Director, Reading-Study Skills Laboratory, University of Oregon, Euge
ne, Oregon.
1970-73 District Psychologist, Del Norte County Unified School District Cresc
ent City, California.
1973-74 Consultant/Field Instructor, Rocky Mountain Special Education Instruc
tional Materials Center; University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Color
ado.

1974-76 Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California.

1976-77 Coordinator Educational Assessment Services and In-service Training,
Humboldt-Del Norte Special Education Master Plan, Eureka, California
I977-Present
Private Practice
Consultation: (Agencies)
1963-73 Consultant, Del Norte County Probation Department, Cresent City, Cali
fornia: Educational Programming, Inservice Training for Teachers at Minimu
m Security Facility.
1965-72 Consultant, California State Welfare Department, Crescent City, Calif
ornia: Inservice in Family counseling and Case Staffing for Counselors.
1967-72 Consultant, California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, Cresc
ent City, California: Vocational Rehabilitation, Crescent Ci
ty, California: Vocational - Psychological Testing.
196843 Consultant, Short-Doyle Mental Health Clinic, Del Norte County, Cali
fornia: Psychological Testing and Case Staffing.
1971-72 Guest Lecturer, California State University, San Francisco; San Franc
isco, California.
1972 Guest Lecturer, Humboldt State College, Arcata, California: "Developmen
t and Implementation of Prescriptive Materials.

Consultation: (Projects)
1965-73 Consultant, Federal Project, Bar-O Boys Ranch, Gasquet, California
1970-71 Consultant, ESEA Title Ill Project, Eureka, California: The Develo
pment of Packaged Self-Instruction Programs for Rural Education.
1972, 73, 74 Member of State Department of Education Audit Team, Federal Specia
l Education Title VI-B Project for the Educationally Handicapped, Sacrament
o, California.
1972 Member of Northern California School of Neurologically Handicapped Audi
t Team, San Francisco, California.
Consultation: (State Department)
1968-70 Review Consultant, California State Department of Education, Title I,
Title VI Federal Projects, Sacramento, California.
1971 Regional Member of State Department of Education Drug Abuse Team,
Sacramento/Redding, California.
1971-72 Consultant, California State Department of Education, Division of Spe
cial Education, Learning Disabilities, Sacramento, California.
1973-74 Consultant Field Instructor, Rocky Mountain Special Education Instruc
tional Materials center, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado
, State Directors of Special Education for Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New
Mexico and Utah: Development and
Implementation of State Wide Delivery Systems for Comprehensive Services and
Materials in Special Education.
Consultation: (District)
1969, 70, Consultant, Special Education Department, Eureka,
1972, 73 California, City Schools: Diagnosis and Remediation of Special Learn
ing Disabilities.
1971 Consultant, Loleta School District, Humboldt County, California, In-se
rvice program on Diagnostic Teaching.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
* Three years Secondary Counselor - Teacher Learning Disabled
* Two years Elementary District Psychologist. Screening and Diagnosis
- Certifying EMR, EH. Development of local IMC.
Psychologist six years for County Unified School District K-12, Educational Pro
grams for all exceptionalities. Included diagnosis, designing appropriate presc
riptive programs, and development of an acceptable implementation system for te
achers in both special education and regular class settings.
Two years Instructor Junior College Level
* Two years Instructor supervising independent studies, Humboldt State College
.
One year Director Reading Study Lab, University of Oregon.
Consultant, various private and public schools, developing and demonstrating pr
escriptive materials related to specific learning disabilities or difficulties,
Demonstrating diagnostic techniques, both standard psychological tests and infor
mal inventories for the teacher. Classroom management techniques. Motivational a
pproaches.
One year experience as a member of a national network with primary responsibili
ty for assisting the five Rocky Mountain states develop or improve delivery syst
ems for comprehensive services and materials to Special Education programs.
 Developed and participated in a variety of teacher workshop and in-service trai
ning institutes in California, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, an
d New Mexico.
Participated in the writing of federal projects for San Francisco
State University and the Washington State Department of Education.
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Humboldt State University, (two yea
rs).
Coordinator, Educational Assessment Service and In-service Training, Humboldt -
Del Norte Special Education Master Plan.
20 years private practice, Northern California.
Superintendent, Big Valley Joint Unified School District.
Therapist, Modoc County Mental Health.
Five Years experience developing Seminars for stress Management and Forensic Hy
pnosis for Peace Officers in western states.
Member American Society for Clinical Hypnosis.

RECENT (LAST EIGHT YEARS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE)

Feather River Community College:
Psychological testing/counseling Certification of Learning Disabled, ADD-ADHD,
PTSE, etc, for the Disabled Student Programs and Services. Instructor, Psycholo
gy.