Nicole Patton Terry

Nicole Patton Terry, PhD, is the Olive and Manuel Bordas Professor of Education in the School of Teacher Education at Florida State University and director of the Florida Center for Reading Research. She is also the director of the Regional Educational Laboratory–Southeast. Her work focuses on children who are vulnerable to language and literacy difficulties, including children with disabilities and children growing up in poverty, and she was previously an associate professor of special education at Georgia State University.

Dr. Patton Terry earned her PhD from Northwestern University’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2004, with a specialization in learning disabilities. She is a former special education teacher, a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Educational Research Association, and has served as president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. She is a coeditor of Handbook of Learning Disabilities with Cynthia M. Okolo and Laurie E. Cutting.