About me
Fred Spooner is Professor of Special Education at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Spooner has researched and written about instructional strategies for students with severe disabilities since the 1980s. Recently, he has focused on alternate assessment and linking both assessment and instruction to the general education curriculum. He is co-editor of the Journal of Special Education and associate editor of Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities. Dr. Spooner has worked closely with Diane M. Browder in the development and implementation of federally funded research projects in the area of early literacy, mathematics, and science for students with significant cognitive disabilities, serving in the capacity of research associate and co-principal investigator. Most recently, he is one of the CO-PI’s for Project SPARC (The Special education teacher education Policy, Practice, and Research doctoral training Consortium; a six-constituent partnership involving Texas A&M, George Mason University, Florida State University, North Carolina State University, University of Central Florida & UNC Charlotte), a newly funded project by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education.
