Dr. Perry Klein, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University. He works with a research team studying early intervention in writing, investigating four questions: How can we teach writing strategies and self-regulation to beginning writers? How can we teach sentence construction? How can we make writing education more effective for struggling writers, including students with learning disabilities? How should instruction in written expression, sentence construction, spelling, and handwriting be sequenced, balanced and integrated?

Professor Klein began his career as a teacher in North York, Ontario. He completed a PhD in Applied Educational Psychology at the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto.