Devin Kearns
Associate Professor & Principal Investigator
Educational Psychology
Expertise: Reading instruction for elementary age students, English phonics, learning disabilities in reading (dyslexia), word recognition, psychology of reading, reading intervention in a neurobiological context, responsiveness to intervention (RTI) systems/multi-tier systems of support (MTSS), intensive intervention
Department of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education
Associate Professor of Special Education
Research Scientist, Center for Behavioral Education and Research
Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., Special Education, Vanderbilt University
M.A., Elementary Literacy and Language Arts, Loyola Marymount University
B.A., History and Government, cum laude, Georgetown University
Biography
Devin Kearns, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Special Education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He is a research scientist for the Center for Behavioral Education & Research and Haskins Laboratories. Dr. Kearns has a Master’s degree in Elementary Literacy from Loyola Marymount University and a Ph.D. in Special Education from Vanderbilt University. He is an affiliated faculty member for the UConn Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) and the UConn Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy.