Corinna Cole

Affiliation

Sam Houston State University

Biography

Corinna Villar Cole, Ph.D., Associate Professor, is the graduate coordinator and advisor of the M.Ed. in Special Education with Educational Diagnostician and Bilingual Educational Diagnostician Graduate Certificate programs. She is the President of the Council for Educational Diagnostic Services (CEDS), a division of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Director of the Houston area Bilingual Assessment Leadership Group (BALG), Director of Appraisal and Diversity of the Garrett Center at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, active member of the Texas Educational Diagnosticians’ Association (TEDA) where she was the President in 2020, and the University Advisor for Hou-Met, the Houston Chapter for TEDA. Her research interests include assessment practices for Emergent Bilingual students, special education, bilingual/ESL education, transition, early childhood education, and second language acquisition. Dr. Cole is an enthusiastic advocate and trainer of parents of children with disabilities and has worked in that capacity for over 30 years.