The SCSU Reading Evaluation And Development of Skills (R.E.A.D.S.) Lab is supervised collaboratively by researchers, Dr. Cheryl Durwin and Dr. Dina Moore. Our lab focuses on improving the reading skills of school-age children by evaluating children’s skills using theory-based and research-based reading and language assessments and implementing theory-based interventions targeted to the particular reading difficulties of individual children. In short, we investigate the efficacy of assessments and interventions while providing a free service to schools by training and supervising undergraduate research assistants who work directly with children at school sites.
Current Research Project:
- Reading Buddies: Dialogic Reading with Integrated Vocabulary Enrichment Cross-Age Intervention
- 2023-2024, 2024-2025: Ridge Hill School, Hamden and Dunbar Hill School, Hamden
- 2022-2023: Ridge Hill School, Hamden
- Improving Reading Outcomes in At-Risk Elementary School Children
- 2021-2022: Ridge Hill School, Hamden
- 2019-2020: Ridge Hill School, Hamden; St. James School, Stratford (research not completed due to school closures from COVID-19 pandemic).
- 2018-2019 school year: Church Street School, Hamden; Ridge Hill School, Hamden; St. James School, Stratford
- 2015-2018 school years: Church Street School, Hamden; St. James School, Stratford
- 2014-2015 school year: Helen Street School, Hamden; St. James School, Stratford
- 2013-2014 school year: Helen Street School, Hamden; St. James School, Stratford
- Investigating Brief, Evidence-Based Measures as RTI Screens
- 2015-2018 school years: Church Street School, Hamden; St. James School, Stratford
Past Research Project:
- Investigating a Word-Families Flashcard Approach for Teaching Kindergarteners to Read
SCSU Reading Evaluation And Development of Skills (R.E.A.D.S.) Lab 