Autor: Deborah K. Reed

Deborah K. Reed, Ph D, is Assistant Professor in the School of Teacher Education and the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University. She is a former middle and high school teacher who has developed numerous instructional materials and professional development programs on adolescent literacy. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award from the Council for Learning Disabilities.Jade Wexler, Ph D, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Maryland. A former high school special education reading teacher, she has served on the editorial board of Learning Disability Quarterly and is a recipient of the Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association. Sharon Vaughn, Ph D, is H. E. Hartfelder/Southland Corporation Regents Chair of Human Development and Executive Director of the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at the University of Texas at Austin. Her numerous awards include, most recently, the Jeannette E. Fleischner Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Learning Disabilities, awarded by the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children.