Vivian Gonsalves, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Gonsalves is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Special Education, School Psychology and Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on early literacy development, teacher education, mentoring, and reading instruction and remediation. She is currently an instructor of special education and literacy development courses in various programs in the College of Education and provides professional development to in-service educators and other related service professionals in implementing assessments and designing instruction for struggling readers. Additionally, she is one of the assistant directors of the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) and the program coordinator for the Dyslexia Certificate program at UF.