Making 62,926 steps count to support The Dyslexia Foundation
October 2021 - London MarathonDr. Sharon Vaughn, the Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Education and executive director of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin, will be continuing her running campaign to help raise money for the Dyslexia Foundation. Her next run was scheduled for 2020, but the event was canceled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The run is back on and set for the 2021 London Marathon in October. Like the Foundation, she is a researcher who has Never Quit Trying * to help children with dyslexia and to promote the importance of the science of reading instruction.
Dr. Vaughn qualified for the 2021 London Marathon and she is teaming up with TDF as an opportunity to raise funds to fulfill the Foundation’s vision of a world where every person with dyslexia can achieve their full potential. Like her steadfast belief that each child with dyslexia counts, let’s make each of the 62,926 steps in her run to cross the finish line count towards advancing our knowledge of dyslexia and translating it to classroom instruction.
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Sharon Vaughn, Ph.D.
Dr. Sharon Vaughn is the Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Education and executive director of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin. Sharon Vaughn was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Learning Disabilities and the Co-Editor of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice. She is the recipient of the AERA SIG distinguished researcher award and The University of Texas Distinguished faculty award. She is the author of numerous books and research articles that address the reading and social outcomes of students with learning difficulties.
She is currently the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on several Institute for Education Sciences, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, and U.S. Department of Education research grants investigating effective interventions for students with reading difficulties and students who are English language learners…
