Principal Investigator
Jack Fletcher
Other Investigators
David Francis
Karla Stuebing
Paul Cirino
Andrew Papanicolaou
Amy Barth
Funding Agency
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Overview
The Texas Center for Learning Disabilities (TCLD) includes researchers at the University of Houston and the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. The team investigates the response to intervention (RTI) of students with reading difficulties through four projects. One examines RTI with at-risk readers in grades 1 and 2, another researches RTI in grades 6–8, the third examines how RTI should be measured and interpreted, and the fourth (implemented only at the University of Houston) uses brain scan technology to examine how processing patterns differ in students who do and do not respond well to reading intervention. More information can be found at the TCLD external website.
Timeline
February 1, 2012, to August 31, 2017
Participants
Follows one cohort of students with reading difficulties and disabilities from sixth to eighth grade and a second cohort of students with reading difficulties and disabilities from first to third grade
Sites
Middle schools in Round Rock, Manor, and Houston; elementary schools in Del Valle and Houston
Outcomes
Research is ongoing.