Please join me in welcoming Daryl Mellard as the subject matter expert for the Reading and Writing Group! We are pleased to introduce Daryl to the LINCS Community. Daryl is Associate Research Professor in the School of Education and Director of the Division of Adult Studies for the University of Kansas' Center for Research on Learning and a national expert with over 25 years of experience in adolescent and adult education. His research focuses on education and employment issues for adults and interventions to improve adult literacy in adult education and other programs, such as Job Corps. As Co-Principal Investigator of the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, under the Office of Special Education Program, he directed its review of the Responsiveness to Intervention and conducted studies of education, social, and employment issues for adults with disabilities. He just completed a five-year study to develop, implement, and study the effectiveness of adult literacy interventions for low-literate adults, including the role of decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension instruction and explicitness of instruction. Daryl was a member of the National Research Council, Committee on Learning Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Adolescent and Adult Literacy and contributed to the Improving Adult Literacy: Options for Practice and Research.
Welcome, Daryl! We are looking forward to learning with and from you!