Jack Fletcher is currently a professor in the Department of Pediatrics and associate director of the Center for Academic and Reading Skills at the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center. For the past two decades, Fletcher, a child neuropsychologist by training, has researched many aspects of development of reading, language and other cognitive skills in children with disabilities.

His work covers issues related to learning and attention problems, including definition and classification, neurobiological correlates, and, most recently, intervention. He collaborates on several grants on reading and attention funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) as well as a grant funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Education and NICHD under the Interagency Educational Research Initiative. Fletcher is also a principal investigator or coprincipal investigator on NIH-funded research projects involving children with brain injuries, including a project on spina bifida and other projects involving children with traumatic brain injury.

Fletcher served on and chaired the NICHD Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities study section and is a former member of the NICHD Maternal and Child Health study section. He chaired a committee on children with persistent reading disabilities for the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and served on a task force on reading for HISD that produced a report widely cited within the state of Texas as a model for enhancing reading instruction in elementary school children.

In addition to his research activities, Fletcher has provided clinical services to children with disabilities and their parents for the past 25 years. In his clinical practice, Fletcher specializes in serving children and adults with disabilities in attention, oral language, learning and emotional and social development, dyslexia, spina bifida, traumatic head injury and mental retardation. He is also an expert in the content and interpretation of the IDEA and has participated at all levels of implementation, ranging from interdisciplinary team meetings to various levels of mediation. Fletcher has received numerous service awards from local school districts.

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