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Kauffman-Hallahan Distinguished Researcher Award, presented by the Division of Research of The Council for Exceptional Children and Routledge Press

Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association

International Literacy Association’s (formerly, International Reading Association’s) Albert J. Harris Research Award

Identified by Thomson Reuters as among the most highly cited in the social sciences

Learning Disabilities Association of American, Lifetime Achievement Award

National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention

Connections Between Reading Comprehension and Word‐Problem Solving via Oral Language Comprehension: Implications for Comorbid Learning Disabilities

Embedding Self-Regulation Instruction Within Fractions Intervention for Third Graders With Mathematics Difficulties

Cognitive Correlates of the Covariance in Reading and Arithmetic Fluency: Importance of Serial Retrieval Fluency

Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 1985, Doug Fuchs was an assistant first-grade teacher in a private school in Baltimore for children with severe behavior problems. He also was a fourth-grade classroom teacher in a public school outside Philadelphia and a school psychologist in the Minneapolis Public Schools. At Vanderbilt, he has been principal investigator of 50 federally-sponsored research grants. They have facilitated development of models of service delivery, assessments and instructional approaches. He is currently exploring the importance of “hybrid” cognitively-focused and skills-based academic interventions for most difficult-to-teach children.

Classroom Management

Learning Disabilities and Behaviour

Response to Intervention

Reading Comprehension

Urban Education

Classroom Assessment

Instruction of Students at Risk for School Failure because of Disability or Poverty

Inclusive Classrooms

Reading and Math Learning Disorders

Interventions

Peer-Mediated Learning

School Improvement and School Reform

Special Education Policy

Special Education

Learning Disabilities

Learning Disorders

Vanderbilt University Profile

Vanderbilt University News Profile

How Teacher Shortages Affect Students With Disabilities

MTSS: What Is a Multi-Tiered System of Supports?

3 Reasons Why More Students Are in Special Education

It’s time to stop debating how to teach kids to read and follow the evidence

School Closures Due to Coronavirus Could Widen Education Inequality Among Students

Professor of Special Education and Nicholas Hobbs Chair of Special Education and Human Development and Professor Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt University Medical School

A look at the Special Education (M.Ed.) program offered at Peabody College.
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A look at Special Education (M.Ed.) with Doug Fuchs

In response to remarks by John Chambers on incorporating collaboration into the DNA of Cisco, Doug Fuchs talks with Sheldon Horowitz about corporate culture and the DNA of schools. They explore what collaboration means within schools and discuss the importance of specialists and non-specialists communicating to support the primary goal, educational attainment.

RTI Thought Leaders Network: Doug Fuchs on the Role of Collaboration in School Success

In this talk, Drs. Doug and Lynn Fuchs discuss their work in measuring and monitoring response to intervention.

Responsiveness to Intervention: Drs. Doug and Lynn Fuchs

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