Dr. Young-Suk Kim

Young-Suk Kim, Ed.D., is an assistant professor of education and research faculty at the Florida Center for Reading Research. She was a former classroom teacher at the elementary and high school level both in the United States and Korea. She holds multiple Master’s degrees in Teaching English as a Second Language, Korean studies, and Human development and culture. She received her Ed.D. from Harvard University in language and literacy and quantitative policy analysis in Education. She also worked at the Boston Children’s Hospital at the Learning Disabilities Clinic. She teaches classes in development of reading and assessment of language and literacy skills. Her research examines multiple factors in children’s language and literacy development with Korean monolingual children, English monolingual children and Korean-English bilingual children.