With a focus on high-incidence disabilities, the special education PhD specialization prepares doctoral students for positions in research and leadership in higher education or the community. Baylor uses a competency-based approach to ensure doctoral students gain knowledge and skills in research, teaching, and supervision while our coursework offers a blend of theory and practice for serving individuals with high-incidence disabilities. Doctoral students will have research opportunities at the Spring Literacy Clinic offered through the Baylor Center for Developmental Disabilities and in the newly developed twice-exceptionalities programming through the Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development.