- Home
- Authors Index
- Tara S. Guerriero
TG
Tara S. Guerriero
Biography
Dr. Tara Guerriero attended Northwestern University where she received her Ph.D. in Learning Disabilities, with a concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience. She also received her M.A. in Learning Disabilities and her B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a concentration in Learning Disabilities and a minor in Psychology from Northwestern University. She is currently a professor in the Department of Special Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level in the areas of foundations of Special Education, assessment, curriculum and instruction/methodology, family systems, and communication/language development and assistive technology. Dr. Guerriero was certified as a Special Education Teacher in the state of Pennsylvania, as well as a Learning Behavior Specialist in Learning Disabilities in the state of Illinois. She was both a clinician and supervisor in a learning clinic at Northwestern University, where she provided remediation for children with learning disabilities and conducted psycho-educational evaluations of children and adults for the purpose of identifying and diagnosing learning disabilities. Dr. Guerriero’s research interests include assessment in special education, inclusive practices associated with special education, and both assessment and teaching within the areas of mathematics and reading in the field of learning disabilities.