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.