COLLEGE PARK, MD (October, 2016) –Sarika S. Gupta, assistant research professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, was selected to serve as associate editor of the journal Young Exceptional Children.
Dr. Gupta, who works in the university’s Center for Early Childhood Education and Intervention, took on the role of associate editor in August, 2016 and will serve for a three-year term. Dr. Gupta was invited to serve as associate editor, one of five holding the title, by Dr. Greg Cheatham, an associate professor at the University of Kansas and editor of the journal.
“It is an honor to serve as associate editor for Young Exceptional Children, a journal that translates evidence-based research into useful strategies for professionals and families in early intervention and early childhood special education,” Dr. Gupta said.
Young Exceptional Children is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal written for those who work with children up to eight years old with disabilities and developmental delays, as well as gifted/talented children and those at risk for future problems.
Dr. Gupta is an alumna of the University of Maryland, earning her doctoral degree in special education in 2010. She also obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at University of Maryland.
The Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology works to combine teaching and research related to human development and learning with quantitative methodologies critical to measurement, statistics and evaluation in the educational, social and behavioral sciences to advance knowledge and practice.
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