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Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D. Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D.
Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research, Tufts University. John DiBiaggio Chair of Citizenship and Public Service.
Professor of Child Development, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development

Maryanne Wolf is Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University and a Professor of Child Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development. She received her doctorate from Harvard University in the Department of Human Development and Psychology in the Graduate School of Education, where she began her work on the neurological underpinnings of reading, language, and dyslexia. Professor Wolf was awarded the Distinguished Professor of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and also the Teaching Excellence Award from the American Psychological Association.

She was a Fulbright Fellow in Germany where she conducted research on dyslexia in German-speaking children. Her current research in collaboration with Dr. Pat Bowers concerns a new conceptualization of developmental dyslexia, the Double-Deficit Hypothesis. This work was the subject of a recent special issue of the Journal of Learning Disabilities. Along with colleagues Dr. Robin Morris and Dr. Maureen Lovett, Professor Wolf has been awarded a NICHD Shannon Award for Innovative Research and several multiyear NICHD grants to investigate new approaches to reading intervention.

She is the author of the RAVE-O Intervention Program, an evidence-based fluency comprehension program for struggling readers that has proven successful in two major federal studies.

She received the Norman Geschwind Lecture Award from the International Dyslexia Association for neuroscience research in dyslexia. She has edited a new book, Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain and is the author of the forthcoming book, The Reading Brain, to be published by HarperCollins.

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