Carolyn A. Denton, Ph.D.
Carolyn A. Denton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Children's Learning Institute, part of the
Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. A former
teacher, she conducts research in schools focused on reading intervention, response to intervention
models, coaching as a form of professional development, and reading comprehension. Her
current projects include a study of reading comprehension in middle and high school students, a
study of interventions for elementary-age children who have both attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder and severe reading difficulties, and a project developing a Tier 2 first-grade intervention
that targets both decoding and comprehension. She has served as the head of the Texas Adolescent
Literacy Project, an initiative of the Texas Education Agency focused on the development of intervention
approaches for struggling middle school readers. Dr. Denton is the coauthor of three other
books, including a reading intervention program for the early grades and two books on the role
of the reading coach, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. She has made presentations
and provided training to teachers, administrators, coaches, researchers, and university faculties
throughout the United States and in Europe and Hong Kong.