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Jennifer Stewart
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asst. director for research initiatives at the TN center for the study and treatment of dyslexia @ MTSU and former special educator. researcher of literacy for students with autism and idd.
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We are incredibly excited to be hosting Dr. @jessicatoste.bsky.social at MTSU this summer for training on Word Connections!
Registration details for the Word Connections Training provided by Dr. Jessica Toste for Middle Tennessee State University. In-person training is two-day for $349 and a virtual one-day option for $199. Training will be June 5 & 6, 2025. Image of Dr. Jessica Toste. Dr. Jessica Toste is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin. She holds research affiliations with the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and Texas Center for Equity Promotion. Her research is focused on methods for intensifying intervention for students with persistent reading challenges and reading disabilities, and she is principal investigator on grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Reading League Journal (TRLJ), an associate editor for the Journal of Learning Disabilities, President of CEC’s Division for Research, and Past President of the Division for Learning Disabilities. Dr. Toste is an award-winning teacher. She was recently selected to join the UT Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Additionally, she was the recipient of the 2023 President’s Associates Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2022 Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and was named one of the 2017 “Texas 10” professors at UT Austin.
April 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Adding to this happy Tuesday- I got my author copies of The Ladder of Reading & Writing!

So excited to share our chapter on supporting students with Intellectual Disabilities!
March 12, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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The incomparable @willavandijk.bsky.social talking about the I don’t knows 🤷‍♀️
February 3, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Had a great time presenting my observation work on reading instruction for students with IDD and autism participating within a MTSS framework at #pcrc2024
February 2, 2024 at 5:56 PM