Britta Bresina, PhD student in the Department of Educational Psychology’s special education program, recently was awarded $1,000 Candace S. Bos Innovative Grant by the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) to support her dissertation research. Bresina is studying whether text cohesion and readers’ comprehension skill level interact to either support or hinder reading comprehension.

The Bos Award supports doctoral students, teachers, and other pupil services personnel, like Bresina, who provide services to students with learning disabilities through creative projects to enhance instruction, curriculum, action research, and service delivery.