Our Research

Early Childhood

Current Research Projects

• Data Analysis Work Group
• Preschool Curricula: Outcomes & Developmental Processes (Program Project/Landry)
• Scaling Up a Language and Literacy Professional Development Program (IERI/Landry)
• Medical Complications and Parenting-Preterm Development (HOME Project/Landry)
• Evaluation of Pre-Kindergarten Curricula in Head Start & Public School Settings (PCER/Landry)
• Texas Early Education Model (TEEM/Landry)
• Texas School Ready!™
• Joint Attention and Preterm Infant’s Competence (PALS/Landry)
• Raising a Reader (RAR/Anthony)

K-12 Education

Current Research Projects

• Building Vocabulary for Emerging Readers (BVER)
• Earobics (Anthony)
• Kindergarten Intervention in Summer School
• Scaling-Up Effective Interventions for Preventing Reading Difficulties (Denton)
• Texas Pre-Kindergarten Limited English Proficiency - PreK LEP (Solari)
• TPRI

Past Research Projects

• Interagency Educational Research Initiative (Fletcher)
• Effective Early Reading Intervention (Foorman)
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Foorman)

Mathematical Research

Current Research Projects

• Mathematical difficulties in middle school (Dr. Steven Hecht)
• Foundational skills for success in basic algebra (Dr. Steven Hecht)

Neurosciences

Current Research Projects

• Academic Outcomes after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (Ewing-Cobbs)
• Accidental and Nonaccidental Pediatric Brain Injury (Ewing-Cobbs)
• Caregiver and Environmental Influences on Outcomes from Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants and Preschoolers (Prassad)
• Cognitive, Instructional, and Neuroimaging Factors in Math (Fletcher & Papanicolaou)
• Developmental Phonologic Dyslexia: Neural Mechanisms (Frye)
• Functional Brain Reorganization in Stroke Recovery (Papanicolauo)
• Longitudinal Effect of Spina Bifida on Learning (Landry)
• Magnetic Source Imaging and the Re-Organization of Cognitive Functions in Children and Young Adults with Spina Bifida Cognitive and Neurobiological Variability (Fletcher & Papanicolaou)
• MEG and MS Study (Panpanicolaou)
• Portable Robotic-Assisted Constraint Induced Therapy in Stroke (Papanicolaou)
• Texas Center for Learning Disabilites (Denton, Papanicolaou)

Past Research Projects

• Dyslexia Studies (Fletcher)