Wendy Gonzales Ph.D.
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
Assistant Professor
Office:
Room LWH 4053
Phone:
(773) 442-5599
Email:
w-gonzales@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
In Room LWH 4053
Country:
United States
SPED 382: Strategies For Differentiating Instruction For Students With Exceptional Learning Needs
SPED 383: Informal Assessment And Progress Monitoring
SPED 511: Methods IV:Alternative Programming And Curriculum In Special Education
ECED 306: Reading Methods in Early Childhood
Research Interests
Reading Interventions, literacy development, learning disabilities, emergent bilinguals, family perspectives.
Education
B.A., Early Childhood Education and Bilingual education-Saint Xavier University
M.Ed, Learning Behavior Specialist 1-University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph.D., Special Education
Selected Publications
Gonzales, W., & Moreno, G. (2022). Culturally Attuned Assessment and Identification Practices in the 21st Century. Bilingual Special Education for the 21st Century: A New Interface, 51-80.
Hughes, M. T., Magaña, S., Gonzales, W., Núñez, G., & Moreno-Angarita, M. (2022). Colombian parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: Perceptions, experiences, and expectations. Journal of International Special Needs Education, 25(1), 25-36.
Magaña, S., Tejero Hughes, M., Salkas, K., Gonzales, W., Núñez, G., Morales, M. & Moreno-Angarita, M. (2021). Implementing a parent education intervention in Colombia: Assessing parent outcomes and perceptions across delivery modes. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 36(3), 165-175.
Gonzales, W., & Tejero Hughes, M. (2021). Leveraging a Spanish Literacy Intervention to Support Outcomes of English Learners. Reading Psychology, 42(4), 411-434.
Siker, J., & Gonzales, W. (2021, November). PREPARING PARAPROFESSIONALS FROM NON-DOMINANT BACKGROUNDS: AN INVESTIGATION OF EXPERIENCES IN GRADUATE SCHOOL. In TED 2021 Conference (p. 254).
Gonzales, W. (2019). English Learners Struggling with Literacy: Does A Spanish Literacy Intervention Enhance Outcomes? (Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago).
Gonzales, W., Núñez, G., Soria, M., & Hughes, M. T. (2018). Engaging in Literacy: Latino Families Speak Up. International Journal of Education, 10(2), 50. https://doi.org/10.5296/IJE.V10I2.12984
Meléndez, J. W., Radinsky, J., Vossoughi, S., Marin, A. M., Bang, M., Nolan, C. M., & Hall, R. (2018). Community-based design partnerships: Examples from a new generation of CHAT/DBR. International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc.[ISLS].
Gonzales, W., & Tejero Hughes, M. (2018). Libros en mano: Phonological awareness intervention in children’s native languages. Education Sciences, 8(4), 175.