Cheryl Dressler is a literacy consultant who has taught English in Switzerland and the United States. Dr. Dressler received an EdD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she assisted in a longitudinal,
in-depth study of vocabulary development. She has published articles in Reading Research Quarterly and Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, as well as, with coauthor Michael Kamil, “First- and second-language literacy,” in August, D. and Shanahan, T. (Eds.) Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.