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Dr. Virginia Buysse is a Senior Scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute and Research Associate Professor in the School of Education at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She serves as PI (with Mary Ruth Coleman, PI) on a grant funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to examine the evidence base of Recognition and Response, an early intervening system for children in pre-k who may be at risk for learning disabilities. She also serves as PI on Nuestros Ninos: a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Sciences) to examine the effects of professional development on teaching practices and language and literacy outcomes of Latino children enrolled in public pre-k programs. She is the Chair of the Research Committee for the Division of Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Buysse also Chairs the FPG Disability Initiative and Co-Chairs the Diversity Committee for the FPG First School Initiative.

Her research interests include early childhood inclusion, friendship and social-emotional development, language and literacy learning among Latino children, models of professional development, models of collaboration and change such as consultation and communities of practice, and program evaluation. She is the co-author (along with Patricia Wesley) of Consultation in Early Childhood Settings published by Paul H. Brookes and co-editor (along with Patricia Wesley) of a forthcoming volume, Evidence-Based Practice in the Early Childhood Field to be published by Zero To Three. She is a member of the editorial boards of Exceptional Children, Infants and Young Children, Journal of Early Intervention, Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, and Young Exceptional Children and serves as the co-editor (along with Pamela Winton, co-editor) of Early Developments, a national magazine published by FPG.