Vishakha Agrawal, Doctoral Student
Vishakha Agrawal is a doctoral candidate in the Special Education program on the High Incidence Disabilities track with a focus on Quantitative methods. Vishakha is also a scholar in the National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII-2) consortium, and has served as the Treasurer for the Special Education Graduate Student Association since its inception in 2023.
Her research focuses on intervention efficacy for children with reading and mathematics difficulties, especially students with co-occurring learning and cognitive difficulties. Currently, she is examining child-level factors that moderate intervention efficacy for low- performing students and using worked examples to understand novice learners’ approaches to word-problem solving. As part of the Barnes Lab, she is a research assistant on the AIM-K and Connect-IT projects, helping with coordination and training as needed.
Vishakha holds an M.Sc. in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences from Kings College London and B.S. degrees in Biology and Psychology – Neuroscience from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, Vishakha was a project coordinator at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT working on an in-school neuroscience study that examines intervention efficacy for students with reading disability using EEG and behavioral assessments. She also has experience with eye-tracking and fMRI research.