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Dr. Chard is an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies for Special Education. His research and teaching interests are in the instruction of early literacy and mathematics skills for students with disabilities or at-risk for school failure. Currently, Dr. Chard is a principal investigator on a large scale federal project on reading instruction in the early grades and serves as a research associate to two federally-funded centers focused on schoolwide models of reading and behavioral prevention and intervention. Dr. Chard has published papers, technical reports, and book chapters on instructional interventions and modifications in reading, mathematics, and expressive writing for students with disabilities, school placement of students with emotional and behavioral disorders, and word recognition processes in reading development. He is an author of a commercially-published K-6 reading program and a senior author on a middle level mathematics program. He consults with schools, universities, and state departments of education nationally and internationally on effective instructional strategies for improving schools for all children. Dr. Chard is Past-President of the Division for Research at the Council for Exceptional Children and is a member of the International Academy of Research on Learning Disabilities. He has taught elementary and secondary school in Michigan, California, and in the U.S. Peace Corps in southern Africa.