Peter Paul | [email protected]

Peter V. Paul, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education & Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.  He has a bilateral, profound hearing loss, but now wear bilateral cochlear implants, and is the father of a son, who has Down syndrome and autism.  One of his major professional responsibilities is teacher preparation for the education of d/Deaf and hard of hearing students.

Dr. Paul's research interests involve the areas of English language and literacy, and he has more than 200 publications, including eight different scholarly texts.  He has served on several editorial boards, including those in the general area of reading (Reading Research Quarterly; Balanced Reading Instruction), and is the current editor of the American Annals of the Deaf.  Dr. Paul has received the College of Education 2000 Senior Research Award, the Richard and Laura Kretschmer National Leadership Award (Ohio School Speech Pathology Educational Audiology Coalition, October 2010), a Resolution of Recognition from the Ohio House of Representatives November, 2011, and Ohio AER Special Recognition Award, November 2014.