Brennan Chandler
Assistant Professor of Special Education and Dyslexia Learning Sciences- Education
Ph.D., Special Education, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024
M.S.Ed., Special Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2019
B.S.Ed., Early Childhood and Elementary Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2016
- Specializations
Dyslexia
Reading intervention
Writing intervention
- Biography
Brennan Chandler is an assistant professor of special education and dyslexia at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in special education with a focus on learning disabilities from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to completing his Ph.D., he worked as a special and general education teacher in both public and private settings in Nebraska and New York. His research focuses on improving academic outcomes for students with dyslexia and other significant literacy difficulties through testing and developing reading and writing interventions.
- Publications
Espinas, D., & Chandler, B. W. (in press). Correlates of K-12 students’ intertextual integration: A
scoping review of the literature. Educational Psychology Review.Shanahan, E., Reno, E., Chandler, B. W, Novelli, C., Choi, S., An, J., & McMaster, K. L. (in press).
Effects of writing instruction on the reading outcomes of students with literacy difficulties in pre-kindergarten to fifth grade: A meta-analysis. Reading and Writing.Chandler, B. W., Toste, J. R., Hart, E. J., & Kearns, D. M. (in press). Instruction and intervention to support
word-level reading skills for adolescent learners with learning disabilities. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.Truckenmiller, A., & Chandler, B. W. (2023). Writing to read: Parallel and independent contributions of
writing to the science of reading. The Reading League Journal.4(1), 5-11.Chandler, B. W., & Sayeski, K. L. (2021). Teaching writing through content: Six sentence-level instructional
activities to improve students’ sentence-level writing skills. TEACHING Exceptional Children. Advance
online publication.Chandler, B., & Hagaman, J. (2020). Pre-service teacher implementation of strategy instruction: Effects on the
comprehension of middle school students, The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 9(1), 1-17.