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| Name | Chris Kliewer, Ph.D. |
| Job/Position: | Professor of Inclusive Education, Disability Studies, & Early Childhood |
| Organization: | University of Northern Iowa |
| Location: | Cedar Falls, Iowa |
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| Full Profile: | Contact me for: Presentations and consultations on literacy, inclusive schooling, and young children. Chris Kliewer is a professor at the University of Northern Iowa. He has taught early childhood special education in both segregated and inclusive situations. He earned a master’s degree in the area of autism and emotional disturbance and a Ph.D. in Teaching & Leadership, both at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. At Syracuse, he was mentored by certain of the most prominent sociologists and qualitative researchers currently studying disability. His thesis committee included Douglas Biklen, Bob Bogdan, Steve Taylor, and Peter Knoblock, and he worked closely with Sari Knopp Biklen. Since leaving Syracuse in the Fall of 1995, Chris has become arguably the most visible qualitative researcher studying issues of early childhood special education, literacy development, and inclusion. His studies have appeared in certain of the most prominent journals in our field including Exceptional Children, JASH, Disability & Society, Teachers College Record, Reading & Writing Quarterly, Disability, Culture, & Education, Mental Retardation, and Journal of Disability Policy Studies. He has served as Project Director of a three-year OSEP Directed Research grant studying literacy and young children with significant disabilities. |