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Barbara Dray, assistant professor, Exceptional Education, co-presented a session, “Scientifically Based Reading Instruction for African American Learners with Dialect Difference,” with Satasha Green, assistant professor, Exceptional Education, and Erica Simon from the University of Texas at Austin at the 52nd annual International Reading Association Conference in Toronto, Ontario, May 13–17. The session examined the cultural variations that influence reading achievement as well as research-based instructional reading practices for African American English (AAE) speakers.