Experts
Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Foundations of Education and the Department of Special Education and Disability Policy
Paul J. Gerber, Ph.D., received his doctorate in special education and school psychology at the University of Michigan in 1978. Before moving to Richmond he was Professor of Education at the University of New Orleans and Associate Dean of the College of Education. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Foundations of Education and the Department of Special Education and Disability Policy in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Over the past twenty-five years he has researched and written extensively about post-school and life span issues for adults with learning disabilities, particularly employment. He has co-authored four books in the area of adults with learning disabilities, one chosen as the top 20 resources for libraries by the American Library Association.
He has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education, the President's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (U.S. Department of Labor), and the British Ministry of Health. Moreover, Dr. Gerber is the editor of Thalamus, the journal of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities and serves on a number of other editorial boards including the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Learning Disability Quarterly, Remedial and Special Education, and Dyslexia: An International Journal of Research and Practice.
Dr. Gerber has been awarded fellowships from the World Rehabilitation Fund and twice from the Project for the Study of Adult Learning (Illinois State University). He has won numerous awards including the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Virginia Council for Learning Disabilities, the Outstanding Paper Award form the Virginia Educational Research Association, the Distinguished Paper Award form the Consortium of State and Regional Research Associations of the American Educational Research Association, and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education Awards for Scholarship and for Excellence.
He has given numerous keynote speeches and national and international presentations. Of note are the William M. Cruickshank Memorial Lecture for the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities and the Distinguished Lecture for the 50th Anniversary of the Marianne Frostig Center in Pasadena, California.