Sharon Vaughn
H.E. Hartfelder/The Southland Corporation Regents Professor,
University of Texas
Sharon Vaughn is the H.E. Hartfelder/The Southland Corporation Regents Professor at the University of Texas and also director of the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at the University of Texas (VGCRLA). As director of the VGCRLA, she leads several major initiatives, including the Three-Tier Reading Research Project; a bilingual-biliteracy (English/Spanish) intervention research study; the first through fourth grade Teacher Reading Academies that have been used for teacher education throughout Texas and the nation; and the creation of online professional development in reading for teachers and other interested professionals.
Dr. Vaughn has published more than ten books including the recently-published Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3 and over one hundred research articles. She is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Learning Disabilities and serves on the editorial board of more than ten research journals, including the Journal of Educational Psychology, the American Educational Research Journal, and the Journal of Special Education.
