Donald D. Deshler is the Williamson Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Special Education and founder and former Director of the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas. Deshler received a presidential appointment to the National Institute for Literacy and has served on the board of directors for the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advisor on adolescent achievement to the U. S. State Department, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Governor’s Association, and the Council on Families and Literacy. He has also been a fellow of the Wheatley Institute at BYU.