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. She currently
works at CLEAR: the Computational Language and Education Research
Center, heading 4 grants developing interactive and engaging
computer-assisted reading systems with intelligent animated agents: the
ICARE and Early ICARE assessment projects from the Institute of
Education Sciences; and the CARLA system being used in an NIH grant
studying Response to Intervention, as well as in a small grant from the
Schwab Foundation to develop the system for use on the Web. Privately,
Wise has also developed the teaching program: Linguistic Remedies for
Reading Disabilities with Laura Rogan of Seattle recently published
in a chapter in a book by Dr. Virginia Berninger. 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.
Barbara Wise
Cognitive Sci Institute-CSLR
University of Colorado at Boulder
594 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0594
