Susan Hupp

After serving for six years as an assistant professor in the special education department at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Susan Hupp came to the University of Minnesota in 1985. She worked in the area of special education since receiving her MEd in 1975 from Boston College in deaf-blind education and her PhD in 1980 from the University of Illinois in severe behavioral disabilities.

Over the years, Hupp's research has focused on cognitive development of students with severe disabilities, mastery motivation of children with and without disabilities and of various cultures, and effective teacher training practices. She has explored different strategies for conducting teacher training to assist teachers to embrace inclusion of students with disabilities within general education classrooms, to design universal and appropriately differentiated instruction, and to use reflective practice as a problem strategy.