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Sylvia Linan-Thompson, PhD
Associate Professor, Fellow in the Mollie V. Davis Professorship in Learning Disabilities, Department of Special Education, College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin
Sylvia Linan-Thompson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, Fellow in the Mollie V. Davis Professorship in Learning Disabilities, Department of Special Education, College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Linan-Thompson is co-principal investigator of studies examining the efficacy of a 3-tiered model of reading intervention in general education classrooms and in bilingual classrooms. She has developed and examined reading interventions for struggling readers who are monolingual English speakers, English language learners, and bilingual students acquiring Spanish literacy. She has authored articles, chapters and a book on these topics and has developed instructional guides.