Nathan Clemens

A large direct contributor to comprehension problems in middle school students with or at risk for reading disabilities is pervasive difficulty in making inferences necessary for understanding what is read. Because literacy attainments in middle school are highly predictive of postsecondary success, middle school provides a later developmental window within which to intervene for struggling adolescent readers. Consequently, a technology-based inference-making intervention, Connect-IT-Compute...

The postdoctoral research program will provide postdoctoral fellows with extensive research training in multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), including the development and evaluation of interventions for students with disabilities and innovative and robust methodology, such as a sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trials. The overarching goal of this program is to prepare four fellows (with 2 years of training each) to conduct rigorous intervention research focused on students with dis

This project will develop an intervention to address a significant problem for students with word-level reading disability (WLRD; i.e., specific learning disability in basic reading, dyslexia): reading words and text with automaticity. There is evidence that (a) poor reading fluency is a consistent and persistent characteristic of WLRD across written languages, and (b) word- or text-reading fluency skills are particularly resistant to intervention. The intervention will address previously un...