迈阿密大学的教学系很高兴为特殊教育提供博士专业，重点是高发病率残疾学生。该专业包括参与正在进行的教师研究，并特别强调特殊教育和多样性问题的交集。选择该专业领域的博士生将通过课程工作，研讨会和研究助学金，以适合于特殊教育研究的多种方法发展专业知识。鼓励学生获得大学水平的教学经验，寻求参与学校和社区项目的机会，并与教育与人类发展学院以及其他UM学校和学院的研究生和教职员工合作。
Our Ph.D. program has a strong focus on diversity, equity, and interdisciplinarity, offering students the opportunity to pursue research in areas such as instructional interventions, including specialized instruction for students with disabilities, innovative use of technology, bi/multilingualism, multiliteracy, teacher preparation, family engagement, learning in community settings, and science, technology and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning. Our faculty express their commitment to improving educational achievement and equity through research, professional development, and collaborations with community partners.<br><br>The focus of our Department's specialization in Special Education is on the intersectionality of disability, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other aspects of students socially determined identities as learners. Within this framework, our faculty engage in research relating to a wide range of issues, including interventions for students who struggle in reading or mathematics, disproportionality in the identification of students for special education services, secondary transition, teacher preparation, school-family collaborations, and children's language development in inclusive preschool classrooms.<br><br>Our aim is to prepare graduates to pursue educational careers that contribute to and/or are informed by empirical research. These careers include faculty positions in higher education, leadership positions in schools and districts, and designers of innovative educational interventions. We encourage students to develop skills in a range of research approaches and to collaborate with faculty in related disciplines and with practitioners and agencies in the community.