Matt Brock is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Ohio State University and a faculty associate at the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy. He has two lines of research that both focus on students with severe disabilities. Specifically, he is interested in inclusion and peer-mediated intervention, and preparing teachers and paraprofessionals to implement evidence-based practices. Matt was recently awarded a grant from the Institute of Educational Sciences to develop and evaluate a model for training special education paraprofessionals to implement basic systematic instructional practices.