Dr Trezek has more than 12 years of experience working as a cross-categorical special education teacher and a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing in the K-12 public school setting. Her research interests focus on reading instruction for beginning and struggling readers with a particular emphasis on investigating the role that phonemic awareness and phonics play in the development of literacy skills for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. She serves as a literacy intervention consultant for several schools for the deaf and public school programs throughout the United States and is a member of the editorial board of the American Annals of the Deaf, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, and Remedial and Special Education. ​