FPG People
Virginia Buysse, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
virginia_buysse@unc.edu
PH: 919.966.7171
FAX: 919.966.7532
Mailing Address:
Campus Box 8180
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8180
Web Site(s):
randr.fpg.unc.edu
Virginia Buysse, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute and research associate professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among her many accomplishments, she is recognized as helping to shape the special education field with her 1993 article entitled "Behavioral and Developmental Outcomes in Young Children with Disabilities in Integrated and Segregated Settings: A Review of Comparative Studies."
Buysse’s research focuses on early childhood inclusion, friendship and social-emotional development, language and literacy learning among Latino children, models of professional development, models of collaboration and change such as consultation and communities of practice, and program evaluation.
She serves as PI on two grants related to Recognition & Response (R&R), one funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the other funded by IES, and as a Co-PI on three other grants. Two are national professional development center grants (NPDCI and Connect), both funded by OSEP. The other grant is the School Readiness ELL Grant funded by NIH (Dina Castro, PI). This grant is adapting the R&R model for Latino ELLs.
Buysse currently serves as President of the DEC and as an Advisory Board member of the National Head Start Center on Inclusion. She has authored numerous journal articles and books, including the recently released Evidence-Based Practice in the Early Childhood Field published by Zero To Three.
View Currently Funded Projects of Virginia Buysse
(click on Project names to see project details)- Nuestros Niños Program
- Post Doctoral Training
- National Early Childhood Professional Development Enhancement Center
- CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
- Early Care and Education Research
- National Center on High Quality Personnel
- National Professional Development Center on Inclusion
- Recognition and Response (RTI) Model for Early Childhood
- Recognition and Response
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