Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D.

About Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D.

Dr. Jan Hasbrouck is an award-winning researcher, educational consultant, and author. She was a reading specialist and literacy coach for 15 years before teaching at the University of Oregon and later becoming a professor at Texas A&M University. She served as Executive Consultant to the Washington State Reading Initiative and as an advisor to the Texas Reading Initiative. She is now working with New York City Public Schools as a member of their Literacy Advisory Council. Dr. Hasbrouck has provided educational consulting to individual schools across the United States as well as in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Germany, Iceland, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand, helping teachers, specialists, and administrators design and implement effective assessment and instructional programs targeted to help low-performing readers. In 2024, Dr. Hasbrouck received the prestigious Samuel T. Orton Award from the International Dyslexia Association, honoring her significant contribution to advancing scientific understanding of dyslexia.

Dr. Hasbrouck earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oregon, and completed her Ph.D. at Texas A&M. Her research in areas of reading fluency, reading assessment, and instructional coaching has been published in numerous professional books and journals. She is the author, coauthor, and co-editor of several books including “Climbing the Ladder of Reading & Writing”, “Conquering Dyslexia”, “Reading Fluency”, and “Student-Focused Coaching”, along with some assessment tools. Dr. Hasbrouck works with the McGraw Hill publishers as an author of their “Emerge!” and “Wonders” reading and intervention programs. In 2019, she helped found Read Washington, a nonprofit organization with the mission to “provide professional development opportunities, based on the science of reading, so every student becomes a skilled and confident reader.”

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