Don Compton
Assistant Professor - Education & Psychology Department
Peabody College of Education
Vanderbilt University
Donald Compton, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of special education at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He is also a co-principal investigator with the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD). Before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Don taught at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and spent a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Behavior Genetics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he worked with Dick Olson analyzing data from the twin sample of the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center. Don teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in instructional principles and procedures in reading and writing for students with disabilities. His research involves modeling individual differences in the development of reading skills in children.
