Infusing the Science of Reading with the Science of Learning: Opportunities for Behavior Analysts becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Infusing the Science of Reading with the Science of Learning: Opportunities for Behavior Analysts, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →The Science of Reading is a vast, interdisciplinary body of scientific knowledge about how reading develops and how best to teach reading. The Reading League identified nine scientific fields as contributors to the body of literature that guides reading instruction today, but is behavior analysis one of them? In this presentation, Dr. Spencer will present contemporary reading instruction models and the learning principles they neglect. She will trace the history of behavior analysis' contributions to reading instruction and expose the gaps and opportunities for behavior analytic reading research and practices. Drawing examples from her own research, Dr. Spencer will show how behavior analysis has the potential for massive mainstream impact.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr. Spencer is the director of Juniper Gardens Children’s Project and professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas. She earned a specialist degree in School Psychology and a PhD in Disability Disciplines from Utah State University with emphases in language and literacy and early childhood special education. She has been a board certified behavior analyst since 2001. Dr. Spencer has worked with culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse children as well as children with disabilities, their teachers, and their families for 24 years. She has been awarded over 15M in research grants and published 64 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 5 book chapters, and 22 non-peer reviewed articles, briefs, or encyclopedia entries. Drawing from speech-language pathology, school psychology, applied linguistics, education, and behavior analysis, she develops and studies oral storytelling interventions to promote the academic language needed to boost reading and writing outcomes of young students, with and without disabilities. Much of her research has resulted in commercialized assessment and intervention tools, available through Language Dynamics or open access educational materials, most of which are available at www.trinastoolbox.com.
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