Profile

Soyoung Park received a Ph.D. in Special Education with a concentration in Learning Disabilities and Behavior Disorders from the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in developing evidence-based mathematics interventions to identify effective instructional strategies for students with learning disabilities, as well as providing high-quality guidelines to pre-service and in-service teachers to enhance their expertise in data-based individualization for mathematics intervention.

• Evidence-based mathematics interventions
• Students with learning disabilities
• Data-based individualization

• Ph.D. in Special Education, The University of Texas at Austin
• M.A. in Special Education, Seoul National University

• Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute Affiliate Faculty

• Learning Sciences Cluster Affiliate Faculty

Principal Investigator: Project ASD-MSI
Project ASD-MSI: Preparing Special Education Teachers and Speech-Language Practitioners in Autism Spectrum Disorders at a Minority Serving Institution
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
Grant H325M240055 | $1.25 million | 2024–2029

Principal Investigator: Project SPEECH 2.0
Project SPEECH 2.0: Speech-Language Pathologists and Exceptional Educators Collaboration for Children with High-Intensity Needs
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
Grant H325K230049 | $1.25 million | 2023–2028

Co-Principal Investigator: Project CENTRAL 2.0
Project CENTRAL 2.0: Connecting Enhanced Networks to Reach All Learners
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
Grant H325K250083 | $1.25 million | 2025–2030

NSF Fellow, Summer Institute in Advanced Research Methods for STEM Education Research (2025–2028)

2025 CATIE Fellow, IES-funded Comprehensive Program for Adaptive Interventions Training in Education

2025 UCF College of Community Innovation and Education Research Fellow

2024 Learning Disability Quarterly Must-Read Article Award, Council for Learning Disabilities

• EEX 3221: Assessment of Exceptional Students
• EEX 4763: Technology for Classroom Teachers of Students with Special Needs