The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER), sponsors a comprehensive program of special education research designed to expand the knowledge and understanding of infants, toddlers and children with disabilities.
Article written by NCSER grantees wins Albert J. Harris Award A Synthesis of Fluency Interventions for Secondary Struggling Readers, written by NCSER grantees Jade Wexler, Sharon Vaughn, and their colleagues Meaghan Edmonds, and Colleen Klein Reutebuch, has won the International Reading Association's 2010 Albert J. Harris Award. The award is given to recent publications that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of preventing or assessing reading or learning disabilities. The article, published in the journal Reading and Writing, synthesizes previous research examining the effects of fluency interventions on the fluency and comprehension outcomes of secondary struggling readers.