The Special Education Graduate Program at the University of Michigan School of Education
Take advantage of unique and rewarding opportunities to pursue Special Education doctoral studies at the intersection of literacy, language, atypical development, and schooling at the University of Michigan School of Education. Four to five years of doctoral study are supported through: research assistantships in which you work closely with faculty on pressing problems related to the education of atypical learners; teaching assistantships, in which you apprentice with some of the country’s leading teacher educators who are redesigning teacher education; and internships in affiliated centers where you will be a member of multi-disciplinary teams engaged in pioneering work regarding the diagnosis and education of children and adolescents with language and communication problems.
During your special education Ph.D. studies, you have the opportunity to work with leading researchers and research centers looking at: atypical cognitive and social development; instructional interventions for word recognition, reading comprehension, written composition, and content learning; developmental variations in reading acquisition; language development; early identification of autism; pragmatics of communicative disorders; as well as challenges and opportunities for multicultural and multilingual learners.
