On September 4, 2015, the Department of Educational Psychology hosted Drs. Douglas & Lynn Fuchs to present their work and insights on addressing learning disabilities in the classroom. Their talk, Is There a Role for Cognitive Processes in Academic Intervention?, addressed the issues of student learners and the necessity for researchers to modify interventions based on students’ ability to learn.

Douglas and Lynn Fuchs are international leaders in the study of learning disabilities and current faculty members in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University. Both Doug Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs received their Ph.D.s in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota in years 1978 and 1981, respectively.

Dr. Douglas Fuchs’s research area focuses on the instruction of students at risk for school failure because of disability or poverty, peer-mediated learning, classroom assessment, school improvement and reform, urban education and special education policy.

Dr. Lynn Fuchs’s research area focuses on the instructional practice and assessment of student progress for students at risk for or with reading disabilities and mathematics disabilities.

Dr. Douglas Fuchs & Dr. Lynn Fuchs were among 100 distinguished alumni from the University of Minnesota, recognized for the advancements in their field for their research and work.
Watch the presentation.