Cara Richards continued...
Cara Richards is an an Assistant Professor of
Special Education at
California State University,
Long Beach. During
this time she taught courses in the special education
programs at both CSUCI and UCSB. She also worked extensively with schools
in early reading interventions for English Learners to prevent learning
disabilities. Prior to completing her doctorate at UCSB she worked as
both an instructional assistant in special education for students with
mild disabilities and as a first grade general education teacher. Her
main research interests include early reading interventions for students
at-risk, particularly EL, response to instruction models for identifying
students with learning disabilities, and multimedia instruction for teacher
pre-professional development.