Nancy Mcintyre PhD, MS

Nancy McIntyre, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and researcher who has worked with children and adolescents with diverse backgrounds and needs in educational and clinical settings in California and North Carolina. She received her Doctorate in Education with an emphasis in Learning and Mind Sciences at the University of California, Davis, where she studied social communication, language, and literacy development for children and adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder. She has published and presented in the US and internationally on language and reading profiles, reading comprehension impairments, reading interventions, and evidence-based practices (EBPs) for school-aged children with autism or those with or at risk for reading disabilities.

McIntyre is a former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill and LEND Fellow at the UC Davis MIND Institute where she investigated evidence-based practices, reading disabilities, and comprehensive reading interventions for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders. She also directed clinical reading evaluations and reading intervention services at the UC Davis Reading and Academic Development Center.