Literacy
Consultant
Andrea
Winokur Kotula is a project director at EDC for Reach
for Reading, a four-year federally-funded grant to design,
develop, and refine a model to provide intensive differentiated
reading instruction to urban middle school students performing
below the 25th percentile in reading. She received her
doctorate in Reading, Language, and Learning Disabilities
from Harvard University, designing and field testing a
valid and reliable measure of the auditory segmentation
component of phonemic awareness for her doctoral dissertation.
Her area of interest continues to be the diagnosis and
correction of reading difficulties. Dr. Kotula has experience
teaching at the elementary level, as a reading specialist,
and in higher education at the undergraduate and graduate
levels. She has maintained a private practice for the
last 17 years as a consultant to schools, hospitals, families,
advocates, and attorneys, primarily conducting independent
educational evaluations.
Before
working at EDC, Dr. Kotula was the director of Reading
and Educational Resources at Franciscan Children’s
Hospital in Boston, where she trained and supervised staff
who conducted educational evaluations as part of multidisciplinary
teams. She has been president of the International Reading
Association’s Special Interest Group on Readability
since 1997 and frequently presents at local and national
conferences.
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