Nancy Mather - Associate Professor


Ph.D., University of Arizona

Teaching: Learning disabilities, Mainstreaming

Nancy Mather, Ph.D. is a professor in the department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology. She specializes in the areas of assessment, reading, writing, and learning disabilities. She teaches primarily master's level courses in the areas of assessment and instruction of individuals with learning disabilities. She has served as a learning disabilities teacher, a diagnostician, and an educational consultant. She has published numerous articles on issues that affect the field of learning disabilities. She conducts workshops on assessment, instruction, and learning disabilities both nationally and internationally. Her primary research interest is factors that affect literacy development. She has been the principal investigator on three federal grants that have been designed to improve teacher training in early reading and writing development. She is a co-author on the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III) and has co-authored two books on interpretation and application of the WJ III: Woodcock-Johnson III: Reports, recommendations, and strategies (Mather & Jaffe, 2002) and Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment (Mather, Wendling, & Woodcock, 2001). In addition, she has recently co-authored the books: Learning disabilities and challenging behaviors: A guide to intervention and classroom management (Mather & Goldstein, 2001) and Essentials of Assessment Report Writing (Lichtenberger, Mather, Kaufman, & Kaufman, 2004).