Special Education Researchers Receive Grants from NICHD, IES; Seethaler Wins CEC Award

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"Vanderbilt's Peabody College is known for the caliber of its faculty and the quality of their scholarship, which influences the practice of education nationally and internationally," Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development, said. "These recent grants, editorships and other forms recognition send a strong message that Peabody continues to lead among research schools of education and human development."

Lynn and Doug Fuchs, professors of special education and co-holders of the Nicholas Hobbs Chair in Special Education and Human Development, recently received multiple research grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Institute of Education Sciences. Donald Compton, associate professor of special education, is an investigator on the grants.

Lynn Fuchs received a five-year grant from NICHD as principal investigator for Calculations, Word Problems, and Algebraic Cognition. The research will begin in September 2009 and continue through 2014. She has also received a four-year grant from IES for her research, Dynamic Assessment to Predict First Graders' Mathematics Development. The research will take place 2009-2013.

Doug Fuchs has received a four-year grant from IES for his research, Responsiveness-To-Instruction to Strengthen the Academic Performance of Students with Reading and Math Disabilities. He was also awarded a five-year grant from NICHD to research RTI for Determining Risk, Providing Prevention, and Identifying Reading Disability. This research will be conducted 2009-2013.

Special Education Graduate Student Awarded for Dissertation

Pamela Seethaler, a Peabody department of special education graduate who is currently a Research Associate in the department, has received the Council for Exceptional Children's Division of Learning Disabilities Outstanding Dissertation Award for "The Predictive Utility of Kindergarten Screening for Math Difficulty: How, When, and With Respect to What Outcome Should it Occur?"

Lynn Fuchs served as Seethaler's graduate adviser.