Description

Dr. Devin Kearns is an associate professor of Special Education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He is a research scientist for the Center for Behavioral Education & Research and Haskins Laboratories. He is an affiliated faculty member for the UConn Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) and the UConn Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy.

His projects address four aspects of this topic. He and his colleagues:

• explore the cognitive mechanisms that predict individual differences in reading (with Jay Rueckl),
• examine the effects of reading instruction on neurobiological processing during reading in the CARING Project(with Ken Pugh at Haskins Laboratories) and the brainCAMP project (with Fumiko Hoeft, Director of the UConn Brain Imaging Research Center).), and
• design tests to understand and screen for dyslexia in the APPRISE Project (led by Fumiko Hoeft).

Resources from this episode (clickable links):

Devin’s faculty page (UConn)

Devin’s website: devinkearns.org

Devin on Twitter: @devin_kearns

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