At Cleveland State, she taught classes on teaching students with mild disabilities and consulted with various agencies on developing curriculum.
Along with her colleague James Kleefeld, she published curricula centered on developing social skills in children with learning and behavior disabilities.
Working Together: Building Children’s Social Skills through Folk Literature (1994; in press) incorporates the use of folktales as a primary teaching method.
The folktales given are stories from a wide variety of cultures that promote healthy social development” (Cartledge & Kleefeld, 1994; in press).
Her latest book, co-written by Ralph Garner III, and Donna Y. Ford, Diverse Learners with Exceptionalities: Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Inclusive Classroom focuses on classroom and behavior management strategies and successful intervention for culturally and racially diverse children with special educational needs (Cartledge, Gardner, & Ford, 2009).