Garrett James Roberts
Assistant Professor
303-871-2823 (Office)
Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall, 1999 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80208-1700
Professional Biography
Dr. Roberts received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst at the Doctoral Level (BCBA-D). Previously, he served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique, a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in Ethiopia, and a special education teacher in Hawaii and Oregon. He also held the title of a project director for a multi-site NICHD funded Learning Disability Resource Center (LDRC) that developed and implemented a multi-component reading with self-regulation intervention for students with reading comprehension deficits in grades 3-5. He is currently the primary investigator on two internal grants investigating topics related to students with reading and behavioral difficulties.
Degree(s)
- Ph.D., Special Education, University of Texas at Austin, 2016
Licensure / Accreditations
- Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Doctoral Level
- Oregon Special Education Teaching License
Featured Publications
- Examining the Effects of After-School Reading Interventions for Upper Elementary Struggling Readers
- Causal Mediation in Educational Intervention Studies
- A century of progress: Reading interventions for students in grades 4–12, 1914–2014
Presentations
- Problem behaviors as a predictor of reading outcomes for elementary students with reading deficits
- Self-Regulation Reading Intervention for Students with Reading and Behavioral Difficulty
- Reading interventions for students with problem behaviors or attention deficit/ hyperactivity:
