Maryanne Wolf
Encyclopedia
Maryanne Wolf is an educator and author who studies the origins of reading and language-learning. She is best known for her research on reading interventions and her book Proust and the Squid on the science of the reading brain. She is currently Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, where she is a Professor of Child Development.
, where she began her work on the neurological underpinnings of reading, language and dyslexia.
In collaboration with Robin Morris and Maureen Lovett, she was awarded a NICHD Shannon Award for Innovative Research, and several multi-year NICHD grants to study new approaches to reading intervention. She has also worked on language research and child development at Harvard Medical School
and the McLean Hospital
Department of Psychiatry in Boston
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In 2001, she published Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain
She also co-edited, with McQuillan and Radwin, the 1980 Thought and language/Language and reading, published by the Harvard Educational Review
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Education and work
Wolf received a doctorate from the Department of Human Development in the Harvard Graduate School of EducationHarvard Graduate School of Education
The Harvard Graduate School of Education is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States. It was founded in 1920, the same year it invented the Ed.D...
, where she began her work on the neurological underpinnings of reading, language and dyslexia.
In collaboration with Robin Morris and Maureen Lovett, she was awarded a NICHD Shannon Award for Innovative Research, and several multi-year NICHD grants to study new approaches to reading intervention. She has also worked on language research and child development at Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
and the McLean Hospital
McLean Hospital
McLean Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and ground-breaking neuroscience research...
Department of Psychiatry in Boston
Boston
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Publications
In 2007 Wolf published the multidisciplinary book, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.In 2001, she published Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain
She also co-edited, with McQuillan and Radwin, the 1980 Thought and language/Language and reading, published by the Harvard Educational Review
Harvard Educational Review
The Harvard Educational Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal of opinion and research dealing with education, associated with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group. The journal was established in 1930.Since 1945, editorial decisions...
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