Areas of Interest

• Relationships among early reading, writing and vocabulary development.
• Factors influencing intervention practice adoption in the classroom.
• Home factors influencing reading, writing and language development.
• Systematic relationships in poverty and literacy development.
• Student factors contributing to resilience/ameliorating conditions

Keyword Interest

• Writing
• Reading
• Vocabulary
• Home factors
• Poverty and literacy
• Resilience
• Educational Policy
• Meta-Analysis
• Research Methods

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Randomized control trial (RCT) study using Self-Regulated Strategies Development (SRSD) for second grade elementary school children identified at risk for writing and behavioral delays/disorders.

Project:
Meta-analysis of word processing interventions research for poorer writer children.

Project:
Meta-analysis of vocabulary intervention effects on reading comprehension with school-aged students.

Project:
Meta-analysis of mathematics instruction with learning disabled students.

Former Experience

• Speech Language Pathologist –birth through five years
• Speech Pathologist- elementary schools
• Speech Language Pathologist –neurorehabilitation, schools for the def, developmentally disabled adults, alzheimer's disease intervention

Education

• M.A. (1991):  Speech-Language Pathology,  SUNY Plattsburgh
• B.Sc. (1989):  Speech and Hearing Science,  SUNY Plattsburgh