Donald D. Deshler, PhD
Emeritus Williamson Family Distinguished Professor of Special Education, University of Kansas
Highlights
Founder and former director, Center for Research on Learning, University of Kansas
Presidential appointment, National Institute for Literacy
Fellow, Wheatley Institute, Brigham Young University
Donald D. Deshler, PhD, is the Emeritus Williamson Family Distinguished Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas. He also is the founder and former director of the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas.
Deshler received a presidential appointment to the National Institute for Literacy and has served on the board of directors for the National Center for Learning Disabilities. He also has served as an advisor on adolescent achievement to the U.S. State Department, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Governors Association, and the Council on Families and Literacy.
Deshler is a fellow for the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University and earned a doctor of philosophy degree in education and psychology from the University of Arizona.
