Fall Conference 2010

Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D., Director, Center for Reading and Language Research, Professor of Child Development, John Dibiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering.

Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D. is the Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University and a Professor of Child Development in Tufts’ Child Development Department with expertise in dyslexia, cognitive neurosciences, developmental psycholinguistics, and reading development and intervention. She is the author of Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain (2007) and editor of Dyslexia, Fluency and the Brain (2001). Dr. Wolf is the co-developer of the RAVE-O program, among other empirically proven instructional programs which she has designed. Dr. Wolf has published hundreds of articles on reading and learning disabilities. Her numerous awards include the National Teaching Award for Four Year Universities from American Psychological Association; the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Psychological Association; the Fulbright Fellowship Alumnae Achievement Award; the Norman Geschwind Lecture Prize from the International Dyslexia Association; the Distinguished Scholarship Award from Tufts University; and the NICHD Shannon Award for Innovative Research. Dr. Wolf had held positions as the Executive Editor in U.S. for Dyslexia; the Director of the Tufts-Malden model literacy centers and summer programs for at-risk readers; the Director of NICHD Center for Reading and Language Research (with co-center cities in Toronto and Atlanta) with Intervention and Tufts Literacy Corps projects in Medford, Somerville, Dorchester, and Malden