Barbara Foorman
Barbara Foorman is professor of pediatrics and director, the Center for Academic and Reading Skills, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Barbara specializes in reading and language development, has published two books and over 80 articles and chapters on this topic, has published curricula in spelling, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. Her research is funded by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. Barbara has been actively involved in outreach to the schools and to the general public, has been a member or technical advisor to several national consensus committees on reading, and a member of the Congressionally appointed committee that advised the research wing of the U.S. Dept. of Education. She is a member of the National Children's Study Advisory Committee for NIH and the planning committee for the framework and specification of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
