Jenny Root
Dr. Root is an associate professor of special education at Florida State University and affiliate faculty at the Florida Center for Reading Research. She is a board_certified behavior analyst (BCBA) and former classroom teacher of middle school students with disabilities. Her research focuses on instructional methods for teaching meaningful academic skills to students with extensive support needs. Dr. Root has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and a dozen book chapters on instruction and assessment of students with disabilities. She was the 2019 recipient of the Tom E. C. Smith Early Career Research Award from the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities.