Robin Irey is an educational research specialist at the UCSF Dyslexia Center. She earned a PhD in Special Education from the UCB/SFSU joint doctoral program and previously earned a Master's and Teaching Credential from USF. Her research interests are informed by her previous experience as a special education classroom teacher and include early reading acquisition and development, reading intervention, metalinguistic underpinnings of reading, cognitive processes of reading, morphological awareness, and assessment.