The Intensive Phonological Awareness (IPA) Program

About C. Melanie SchueleMelanie C. SchueleNaomi D. Murphy

Louisa Cook Moats Ed.D. has published many book chapters journal articles and policy papers on reading instruction. Formerly Project Director at the District of Columbia Public Schools site of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Interventions Project Dr. Moats is now an independent consultant and writer who specializes in the professional development of teachers of reading and writing. Dr. Moats spent the 1996-1997 school year as a visiting scholar at the Sacramento County Office of Education where she authored and presented leadership training materials on early reading for the California State Board of Education. These materials are now required content in all of the professional development programs conducted under Assembly Bill 1086 in California. Dr. Moats received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College her Master of Arts degree from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University and her doctorate of education in reading and human development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She worked as a teacher neuropsychology technician and specialist in learning disorders prior to her doctoral training. She was a licensed psychologist in private practice for 15 years in Vermont and a graduate instructor both at Harvard and at St. Michael's College in Winooski Vermont where she developed innovative courses for teachers linking the disciplines of linguistics and reading education. Specializing in reading development reading disorders spelling and written language she has written and lectured widely throughout the United States and abroad. She has taught courses in teacher education at the Greenwood Institute in Putney Vermont and at Simmons College in Boston. Her publications include this text's companion workbook Speech to Print Workbook: Language Exercises for Teachers (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. 2003); journal articles; book chapters; a classroom basal spelling program; a book titled Spelling: Development Disability and Instruction (York Press 1995); and a book for parents co-authored with Susan L. Hall Straight Talk About Reading: How Parents Can Make a Difference in the Early Years (Contemporary Books 1999).