Dr. T. V. Joe Layng
Senior Scientist
Joe Layng co-founded Headsprout, and serves as the company’s Senior Scientist, in which capacity he led the scientific team that developed Headsprout’s patented Sprout Learning™ technology. This technology forms the basis of the company?s Headsprout Early Reading and Reading Comprehension programs, for which Dr. Layng was the chief architect. Dr. Layng earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science (Biopsychology) from The University of Chicago, where he collaborated on research investigating the adduction of untrained complex symbolic behavior from simpler behavioral components, which led to some of the key elements upon which the Headsprout Sprout Learning™ technology is based. Dr. Layng has over 25 years of experience in the experimental and applied learning sciences. From 1991 to 1996, he was the Director of the Academic Support Center, and then Dean of Public Agency and Special Training Programs at Malcolm X College in Chicago. In 1992, Dr. Layng co-authored the seminal paper on Generative Instruction, which appeared in the American Psychologist.
