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Dr. Mike Assel
Children's Learning Institute
Mike Assel is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Assel received his doctorate from the University of Houston in Counseling Psychology and interned in the Houston Independent School District’s Psychological Services Department. Following completion of his degree, Dr. Assel completed post-doctoral training at UTHSC-Houston. As one of the staff psychologists in the Dan L. Duncan Neurodevelopmental Clinic, Dr. Assel routinely evaluates children with a range of development differences (e.g., Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Delays, Learning Disabilities, and ADHD). His research interests include assessment, measure development, prematurity, and program evaluations within early childhood education programs. Dr. Assel is an expert on assessment and has worked with other Children’s Learning Institute staff to develop classroom based progress monitoring measures currently being used across the state of Texas and many other communities across the country. Dr. Assel is currently a co-investigator on several large NICHD and TEA sponsored grants and is responsible for coordination of assessment data in several projects. Dr. Assel has published on the importance of early maternal interaction behaviors and their influence on children’s later math and literacy achievement, curriculum, and assessment.