{"id":421,"date":"2009-05-12T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.umaine.edu\/edhd\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:22:25","slug":"janet-spector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/facultystaff\/janet-spector\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Spector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Associate Professor Emerita of Special Education<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:spector@maine.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spector@maine.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shibles Hall<br \/>\nUniversity of Maine<br \/>\nOrono, ME 04469-5766<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Janet Spector is an associate professor emerita of special education at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. She has an M.A. in special education from University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University. Janet is a former special education teacher (K-6 in West Hartford, Conn.) and special education consultant (Eastern Maine Medical Center). Her research focuses primarily on reading difficulties, including investigations aimed at improving assessment methods for identifying at-risk students and evaluating their progress, studies of cognitive factors that place students at-risk for early reading difficulties, and evaluation of reading instructional practices in use with students with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br \/>\nPh.D., 1983, Stanford University<br \/>\nM.A., 1974, University of Connecticut<br \/>\nB.A., 1972, Trinity College<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses taught at UMaine<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SED 545: Intervention for Reading Difficulties<\/li>\n<li>SED 553: Assessment in Special Education<\/li>\n<li>EHD 690: Seminar in Prevention &amp; Intervention Studies: Academic Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sample publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spector, J. E. &amp; Cavanaugh, B. J. (2015). <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/05\/Remedial-and-Special-Education-2015-Spector-337-46.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conditions of Beginning Reading Instruction for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/a>. <i>Remedial and Special Education<\/i>, 36(6), 337-346. DOI: 10.1177\/0741932515579277.<\/li>\n<li>Spector, J. E. (2011). <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/05\/Spector-JADD-2011-copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sight word instruction for students with autism: An evaluation of the evidence base<\/a>. <i>Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders<\/i>, 41, 1411-1422. DOI 10.1007\/s10803-010-1165-x<\/li>\n<li>Spector, J. E. (2005). <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/05\/Spector-2005-RP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instability of double-deficit subtypes among at-risk first grade readers<\/a>. <i>Reading Psychology<\/i>, 26, 285-312. DOI: 10.1080\/02702710590967834<\/li>\n<li>Spector, J. E. (2005). <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/05\/Spector-2005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How reliable are informal reading inventories?<\/a> <i>Psychology in the Schools<\/i>, 42, 593-603. DOI: 10.1002\/pits.20104<\/li>\n<li>Spector, J. E. &amp; Moore, P. (2004). Does phonological processing distinguish between students who are more versus less responsive to Reading Recovery? <i>Literacy Teaching and Learning<\/i>, 8, 1-25.<\/li>\n<li>Spector, J.E. (1992). <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/05\/Dynamic-assessment-JEP-1992.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Predicting progress in beginning reading: Dynamic assessment of phonemic awareness<\/a>. <i>Journal of Educational Psychology<\/i>, 84, 353-363.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Spector is an associate professor of special education at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"parent":24368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Janet Spector is an associate professor of special education at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"ckelly","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/author\/caseykelly-2\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24470,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/24470"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}