Patricia Vadasy, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at ORI. She has an extensive background in the acquisition of early alphabet and word reading skills, vocabulary instruction, and school-based intervention research. Patricia has been the principal investigator on eight United States Department of Education (DOE) funded projects and co-investigator on three projects. She was the principal investigator on a series of research studies on supplemental early reading interventions. Patricia has published widely on her reading intervention research in peer-reviewed journals. She is the first author of the Sound Partners reading interventions (Vadasy et al., 2005; Vadasy, 2013) and co-author of Handbook of reading interventions (O’Connor & Vadasy, 2010).