Dr. Lydia Smiley

Lydia R. Smiley, Ph.D., is currently a professor of Exceptional Student Education at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. She received a master's degree in mental retardation from Winthrop College and a doctorate in learning disabilities with a cognate in linguistics and language development from Georgia State University. She taught in the field of special education for 4 years in South Carolina. Dr. Smiley's major teaching and research interests are in the areas of language and learning disabilities, cognitive and metacognitive strategies intervention, and linguistic and cultural diversity. Her most recent contribution to the field of special education is the 1998 publication of Language Delays and Disorders: from Research to Practice, coauthored with another FAU faculty member, Dr. Peggy Goldstein.