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Overview

Sharon Vaughn is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to developmental and educational psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, they have worked extensively in the following subfields:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Education
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The primary topics covered in their research comprise:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance

Sharon Vaughn has published in various academic venues, including:

  • Scientific Studies of Reading
  • Remedial and Special Education
  • Exceptional Children
  • Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Journal of Educational Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Philip Capin, Greg Roberts, Elizabeth A. Stevens, Anna-Mária Fall, and Elizabeth Swanson.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Vaughn are:

  • Examining the Effects of Integrating Anxiety Management Instruction Within a Reading Intervention for Upper Elementary Students With Reading Difficulties (2021) - Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Current State of the Evidence: Examining the Effects of Orton-Gillingham Reading Interventions for Students With or at Risk for Word-Level Reading Disabilities (2021) - Exceptional Children
  • Examining the Reading and Cognitive Profiles of Students With Significant Reading Comprehension Difficulties (2021) - Learning Disability Quarterly
  • A Commentary on Bowers (2020) and the Role of Phonics Instruction in Reading (2020) - Educational Psychology Review
  • Sustained Attention and Behavioral Ratings of Attention in Struggling Readers (2020) - Scientific Studies of Reading

Best Publications

  • Focus Group Interviews in Education and Psychology

    Sharon Vaughn;Jeanne Shay Schumm;Jane Sinagub

  • Redefining Learning Disabilities as Inadequate Response to Instruction: The Promise and Potential Problems

    Sharon Vaughn;Lynn S. Fuchs

  • Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning and Behavior Problems

    Sharon Vaughn;Candace S. Bos

  • A Synthesis of Research on Effective Interventions for Building Reading Fluency with Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities

    David J. Chard;Sharon Vaughn;Brenda Jean Tyler

  • Response to Instruction as a Means of Identifying Students with Reading/Learning Disabilities:

    Sharon Vaughn;Sylvia Linan-Thompson;Peggy Hickman

  • How effective are one-to-one tutoring programs in reading for elementary students at risk for reading failure? A meta-analysis of the intervention research

    Batya Elbaum;Sharon Vaughn;Marie Tejero Hughes;Sally Watson Moody

  • A Synthesis of Reading Interventions and Effects on Reading Comprehension Outcomes for Older Struggling Readers

    Meaghan S. Edmonds;Sharon Vaughn;Jade Wexler;Colleen Reutebuch

  • Response to Intervention: Preventing and Remediating Academic Difficulties

    Jack M Fletcher;Sharon Vaughn

  • The Underlying Message in LD Intervention Research: Findings from Research Syntheses

    Sharon Vaughn;Russell Gersten;David J. Chard

  • Research-Based Implications from Extensive Early Reading Interventions

    Jeanne Wanzek;Sharon Vaughn

  • Graphic Organizers and Their Effects on the Reading Comprehension of Students with LD A Synthesis of Research

    Ae Hwa Kim;Sharon Vaughn;Jeanne Wanzek;Shangjin Wei

  • Collaborative Strategic Reading during Social Studies in Heterogeneous Fourth-Grade Classrooms

    Janette Kettmann Klingner;Sharon Vaughn;Jeanne Shay Schumm

  • Reciprocal Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities Who Use English as a Second Language

    Janette Kettmann Klingner;Sharon Vaughn

  • Alternative approaches to the definition and identification of learning disabilities: some questions and answers.

    Jack M. Fletcher;W. Alan Coulter;Daniel J. Reschly;Sharon Vaughn

  • Observations of Students with Learning Disabilities in General Education Classrooms

    Ruth McIntosh;Sharon Vaughn;Jeanne Shay Schumm;Diane Haager

  • Making Adaptations for Mainstreamed Students: General Classroom Teachers' Perspectives

    Jeanne Shay Schumm;Sharon Vaughn

  • Collaborative Models of Instruction: The Empirical Foundations of Inclusion and Co-Teaching.

    Michael Solis;Sharon Vaughn;Elizabeth Swanson;Lisa Mcculley

  • Teaching exceptional, diverse, and at-risk students in the general education classroom

    Sharon Vaughn;Candace S. Bos;Jeanne Shay Schumm

  • A Meta-Analysis of Interventions for Struggling Readers in Grades 4–12: 1980–2011

    Nancy K. Scammacca;Gregory J Roberts;Sharon Vaughn;Karla K. Stuebing

  • Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice.

    Nancy Scammacca;Greg Roberts;Sharon Vaughn;Meaghan Edmonds

  • Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties

    Janette K. Klingner;Sharon Vaughn;Alison Boardman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanne Wanzek
Jeanne Wanzek Vanderbilt University
Jack M. Fletcher
Jack M. Fletcher University of Houston
David J. Francis
David J. Francis University of Houston
Paul T. Cirino
Paul T. Cirino University of Houston
Carolyn A. Denton
Carolyn A. Denton The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Karla K. Stuebing
Karla K. Stuebing University of Houston
Deborah C. Simmons
Deborah C. Simmons Texas A&M University
Lynn S. Fuchs
Lynn S. Fuchs Vanderbilt University
Yaacov Petscher
Yaacov Petscher Florida State University
Joseph K. Torgesen
Joseph K. Torgesen Florida State University

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