Norma A Lopez-Reyna, PhD
Associate Professor Emerita
Director of Special Projects
Contact
Building & Room:
ETMSW 1031 & 3010
Address:
1040 W. Harrison St. (M/C 147), Chicago, IL 60607
Email:
About
Dr. Norma A Lopez-Reyna currently serves as Director of Special Projects in the Office of Student Success (OSS), College of Education. Prior to her role in the OSS, Dr. Lopez-Reyna was department chair and associate professor in the Department of Special Education. In that role she specialized in assessment and instruction of English Language Learners with disabilities, parental involvement in their children's learning, and in bilingual special education teacher education. She also served for over 30 years as Director of the UIC Educational Assessment Clinic which provided services for children aged 5 - 18 who were experiencing learning difficulties. Dr. Lopez-Reyna created the bilingual special education endorsement program, directed several OSEP funded personnel preparation grants that graduated over 200 bilingual special educators. For 12 years, she was Director of the Monarch Federal Technical Assistance Center which provided grantsmanship, program improvement, and new program development services to hundreds of special education faculty at TCCUs, HBCUs, and other minority serving institutions of higher education across the nation.
Education
PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Policy Analysis in Special Education
MA, UC Santa Barbara, Counseling Psychology; School Psychology Credentials
BA, UC Santa Barbara, Sociology; minor in Portuguese Language & Culture