POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

[Mary Ann Romski]

 POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

The Departments of Psychology and Educational Psychology & Special
Education and the Center for Research on Atypical Development and
Learning (CRADL) at Georgia State University, Atlanta Georgia have
postdoctoral positions beginning Fall 2007 in their new Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) Post-Doctoral Research Training in Language and
Literacy with Special Populations Program.  

The goal of the training program is to offer individualized research
experiences within the context of interdisciplinary research teams.
Program faculty have projects designed to empirically validate
educational interventions that promote language or literacy development
in special populations: children, adolescents, and adults at risk for,
or with, identified disabilities.  Faculty represent the disciplines of
psychology, special education,  and communication disorders.  Fellows
will work with interdisciplinary teams of researchers on one or more of
following on-going funded field-based research projects:  (1) Evaluating
the Effectiveness of Reading Interventions for Students with Mild Mental
Retardation; (2) Improving Deaf Preschoolers* Literacy Skills; (3)
Multiple Component Remediation for Struggling Middle School Readers; (4)
Parent-Implemented Augmented Language Interventions for Young Children
with Developmental Disabilities; (5) Research on Reading Instruction for
Low Literate Adults; and (6) Integrated Functional Literacy for Students
with Moderate to Severe Disabilities.

The two-year fellowship will provide trainees with intensive training
in designing field-based intervention research with special populations
(both group and single-subject designs), analysis of existing data bases
using advanced statistical techniques (e.g., HLM), and in professional
development, including grant writing, and professional presentations and
publication.  

Salary: $50,000 per year with full health care benefits.

More information is available at the Center for Research in Atypical
Development webpage ( http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwaty/ies.html )


Questions?  Contact Program Co-Directors Drs. Rose A. Sevcik or Amy
Lederberg at rsevcik at gsu.edu or alederberg at gsu.edu. 



MaryAnn Romski, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Social & Behavioral Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Communication
Director, Center for Research on Atypical Development and Learning
(CRADL
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4038
Atlanta, GA  30302-4038
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Email: mromski at gsu.edu