Latisha Hayes, PhD, has taught students with reading disabilities in the primary through middle grades as a special educator and reading specialist. She is an associate professor at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on the diagnosis of and intervention for reading difficulties as well as English/Language Arts methods for early childhood, elementary, and special educators. She works with preservice and in-service teachers at the McGuffey Reading Center. She is coauthor of a number of books on literacy and has been published in many leading literacy and communication journals.