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Gary A. Troia, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a professor of Special Education at Michigan State University. Prior to receiving his doctorate from the University of Maryland in 2000, he worked 10 years in public schools as a special educator and speech-language pathologist, and six years as a university clinical supervisor.

Troia is co-editor of the journal Topics in Language Disorders and serves on the editorial boards of several top special education journals.

With colleagues Froma Roth and Colleen Worthington, he developed a phonological awareness intervention program for young at-risk children called Promoting Awareness of Speech Sounds (PASS), published by Attainment Company. With fellow researchers Lori Skibbe and Ryan Bowles and funding through the Institute of Education Sciences, he has developed an online phonological awareness assessment for young children with complex communication needs called ATLAS-PA, one component of the Access to Literacy Assessment System. Most recently, with funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, Troia, in collaboration with fellow MSU scholar Adrea Truckenmiller and others, developed and piloted the Writing Architect, a web-based platform to collect and analyze student writing samples and, using the derived data, make instructional recommendations with links to evidence-based writing techniques and programs.

Troia has authored over 75 research papers, book chapters and white papers and has given numerous presentations about his work in the areas of phonological processing and awareness, writing assessment and instruction and teacher professional development in literacy. He has been awarded over $7 million in intramural and extramural grants and contracts.