Paige Pullen 

Dr. Paige C. Pullen joins the University of Florida faculty with appointments in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies and the Lastinger Center for Learning. Dr. Pullen comes to UF after 16 years at the University of Virginia (UVA), where she held appointments in the Curry School of Education and the School of Medicine. Dr. Pullen is a triple Gator with her BAE, MEd, and PhD from the University of Florida. She was a public school elementary and reading teacher for 12 years, teaching students from diverse backgrounds and with diverse learning disabilities and abilities. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher at UVA, receiving the 2011 Seven Society Outstanding Mentor Award and the 2010 Outstanding Professor of the year at Curry. She has served as Publications Chair for the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children and as President of the Virginia Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Pullen is a member of several editorial boards and since 2010 has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Exceptionality, and she is co-editor of the Handbook of Special Education. Dr. Pullen's research has focused primarily on implementing effective interventions for children with or at risk for learning disabilities, especially in the area of reading. She has worked with colleagues from the UVA School of Medicine to provide effective health and educational services to children with disabilities not only at UVA but in rural Southwest Virginia and, most notably, in Lusaka, Zambia, and Gaborone, Botswana in Africa.

Adolescent Literacy, Clinical Interventions, Cognition, Disabilities Assessment and Outcomes, Diverse Learners, Early Childhood, Early Childhood Literacy, Elementary Education, Historical Foundations, Intervention, Language and Literacy Development, Learning Disabilities / RTI, Literacy, Methodological Research, Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Other Issues and Trends, Primary / Elementary, Professional Development, Psychological Studies, Quantitative Research, Reading, Special Education, Training

• Ph.D. in Special Education, 2000 - University of Florida
• M.A.Ed. in Elementary Education, 1990 - University of Florida
• B.A. in Education, 1988 - University of Florida

• Research Professor, School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies, University of Florida, 2017 - Present
• Literacy Initiatives Manager, Lastinger Center for Learning, University of Florida, 2017 - Present
• Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Secondary Appointment), University of Virginia Children's Hospital, 2013 - 2017
• Associate Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, 2007 - 2017

• Editor-in-Chief, Exceptionality: A Special Education Journal, 2010 - present
• Editorial Board, Exceptional Children, 2015 - present
• Editorial Board, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2006 - present
• Editorial Board, Teacher Education in Special Education
• Editorial Board, Learning Disabilities Quarterly, 2004 - present
• Editorial Board, Young Exceptional Children, 2001 - present
• Academy Fellow, International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2014 (inducted) - present
• Outstanding Publication Award, Teacher Education Division, Council for Exceptional Children (co-authored with Kennedy, M. J., Ely, E.*, Thomas, C. N., Pullen, P. C, Newton, J. R, Ashworth, K.*, Cole, M.*, T., & Lovelace, S. P.*), 2013
• Seven Society Outstanding Mentoring Award, 2011
• Outstanding Professor of the Year, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, 2010