Dore R. LaForett, Ph.D.
Doré R. LaForett, Ph.D. is an Investigator at the FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on school readiness, mental health, and family functioning during early childhood, with an emphasis on low-income and ethnic/language minority populations. Her work aims to make educational and behavioral interventions and services more accessible to children and families. She currently works on projects that seek to build research capacity in the study of dual language learners ages birth–five, with recent efforts that include adapting Recognition & Response (a model of Response to Intervention for pre-kindergarteners) for use with Spanish-speaking preschoolers.