Lindsay Flynn

Finding time to provide intensive reading instruction for students with disabilities and poor readers is more difficult in secondary schools than in elementary schools. Reading instruction in middle school is often eliminated in favor of tutoring support for passing courses. Educators can be faced with weighing the importance of content acquisition over reading skills for improving academic outcomes for these struggling students. This project will develop an intervention to address this dile...

This postdoctoral program trained four postdoctoral fellows in research design and statistical methods within the areas of reading, math, and cognition. The training program included mentoring faculty with expertise in intervention research and statistical methods.