About me
Dr. Jessica Toste is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin. She holds research affiliations with the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and Texas Center for Equity Promotion. Her research is focused on methods for intensifying intervention for students with persistent reading challenges and reading disabilities, and she is principal investigator on grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Reading League Journal (TRLJ), an associate editor for the Journal of Learning Disabilities, President of CEC’s Division for Research, and Past President of the Division for Learning Disabilities. Dr. Toste is an award-winning teacher; she was the recipient of the 2023 President’s Associates Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2022 Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and was named one of the 2017 “Texas 10” professors at UT Austin. You can find her online at jessicatoste.com, as well as on Instagram (instagram.com/tosteteam) and YouTube (youtube.com/@TosteTeam).
