Biography
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
Research
- Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute Affiliate Faculty
- Learning Sciences Cluster Affiliate Faculty
- Co-Principal Investigator, Project ASD-MSI: Training Special Education Teachers and Speech-Language Practitioners in Autism Spectrum Disorders at a Minority-Serving Institution ($1.25 million grant; U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, 2025–2029; Grant H325M240055)
Awards
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
Courses
- EEX 3221: Assessment of Exceptional Students
- EEX 4763: Technology for Classroom Teachers of Students with Special Needs