{"id":55279,"date":"2021-09-17T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=55279"},"modified":"2025-04-04T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:46:30","slug":"nancy-nelson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/nancy-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy J. Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nancy J. Nelson is an assistant professor of special education at Boston University and deputy director of the National Center on Improving Literacy and the Lead for Literacy Center. Dr. Nelson is a former special education teacher and school psychologist, and a principal investigator on more than a dozen federally funded projects to develop or test the efficacy of reading and math interventions for students with reading and math difficulties and learning disabilities. She regularly works with state, regional, and local education agencies to provide technical assistance related to the effective implementation of assessment and instruction in multi-tiered systems of support.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\n<h3>Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2024\/how-can-educators-improve-literacy-and-instill-a-joy-of-reading\/\">How Can Educators Improve Literacy and Instill a Joy of Reading?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2023\/faculty-research-spotlight-nancy-j-nelson\/\">Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/support-students-with-dyslexia-with-new-tutorials\/\">Support Students with Dyslexia with New Tutorials<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/national-center-on-improving-literacy-joins-bu-wheelock\/\">National Center on Improving Literacy Joins BU Wheelock<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/bu-wheelock-welcomes-new-faculty-for-fall-2021\/\">BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2021<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apmreports.org\/story\/2025\/08\/21\/lawsuit-saves-reading-experiment-trump-cuts\">Lawsuit Saves Massive Reading Experiment<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/how-to-help-kids-become-better-readers\/\">How to Help Kids Become Better Readers<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":16970,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/55279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16970"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/55279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/55279\/revisions\/82261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}