Joseph Sparling, Ph.D.
Joseph Sparling, Ph.D., is the Board Chair of the Abecedarian Education Foundation
(international), a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Frank Porter Graham
Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina (United States of
America), and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of
Education of the University of Melbourne (Australia). His 50-year
career has been
focused on bringing educational opportunities to vulnerable or disadvantaged
children from birth through age 5. With Professor Craig Ramey, he developed an
early educational program known as the Abecedarian Approach. This program
has been evaluated in a series of randomized controlled trials with results published
in hundreds of peer-reviewed
journal articles.