Dr. Barbara Wise is a researcher and clinician. At the University of
Colorado, she conducts and publishes research in the remediation of
reading disabilities, in individual differences in children's profiles
and in their response to treatment, and in computer-assisted
instruction, authoring or co-authoring 45 papers in these areas, many
with colleagues Sarel Van Vuuren, Richard Olson, and Lynn Snyder.
Current research interests include how best to teach different children
to improve foundational skills and/or comprehension abilities, how to
measure progress in adaptive ways, and how to apply and transfer gains
to independent reading well after training is completed (http://carla.colorado.edu). She is a Senior Research Associate at CLEAR: the Computational Language and Education Research Center. There she is Principal Investigator of two grants that have included the development of interactive and engaging computer-assisted reading systems with animated agents. One is the Early ICARE assessment project from the Institute of Education Sciences. The other uses CARLA, a comprehensive and adaptive intervention system in an NIH grant which studies Computer-assisted Response to Intervention, in Project V of the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center, with Richard Olson as Center Director, and Brian Byrne and Sarel Van Vuuren as co-Investigators.
Privately, Wise has also developed the teaching program: Linguistic Remedies for Reading Disabilities (2004), recently described in a chapter in Rosenfield, S. & Berninger, V. (2009) Translating Science Supported Instruction into Evidence Based Practices. Oxford University Press. Wise also consults
with school districts and businesses that want to improve their reading
programs. She teaches children with learning difficulties and their
families, and trains and mentors teachers of these children. (http://www.linguisticremedies.com/)
Barbara Wise
Institute of Cognitive Science: CLEAR http://clear.colorado.edu
University of Colorado at Boulder
594 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0594
