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Brenda-Jean Tyler teaches introductory special education courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her students come from a variety of programs. Tyler has gone through several levels of Quality Matters training for online instruction, and she teaches her master-level courses in an asynchronous online format. She has been a co-director and director of personnel preparation grants, as well as a grant focused on the comprehensive examination process in special education.

Her interests center on the unique challenges that students with disabilities who are non-native speakers of English confront in school, including challenges arising from differences in cultural norms and expectations and how these differences intersect with reading disabilities as well as other learning differences. Tyler’s teaching experience is primarily in culturally and linguistically diverse middle-school classrooms.