Louise Spear-Swerling, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Special Education at Southern Connecticut State University.
Currently she consults often for K-12 schools, primarily on cases involving Students with severe or persistent Literacy Difficulties and ways to improve their achievement..
Spear-swerling prepared both general and special education teacher candidates to teach Reading using Structured Literacy approaches for many years.
A former special educator at the elementary level, Dr.
Spear-swerling is the author of two previous books on Reading Difficulties and is an editorial board member for several journals, including Annals of Dyslexia , Teaching Exceptional Children , and Reading Psychology .
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Her research interests focus on children\'s Reading development and Literacy difficulties, as well as teacher knowledge for Reading instruction; she has presented and published widely on these topics.
Louise Spear-Swerling, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Special Education at Southern Connecticut State University
