Maryanne Wolf
Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, a teacher, and an advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the newly created Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Video Interviews & Talks — Maryanne Wolf
Jan 14, 2016 · Wolf studies how the human brain learns to read and what happens when it doesn't. In today's episode, Dr. Maryanne Wolf of Tufts University's Center for Reading and Language Research talks with Adam about the human brain's ability to read.
Reader, Come Home — Maryanne Wolf
Wolf explores the “cognitive strata below the surface of words”, the demotivation of children saturated in on-screen stimulation, and the power of ‘deep reading’ and challenging texts in building nous and ethical responses such as empathy.
CV — Maryanne Wolf
The author of more than 160 scientific articles, she designed the RAVE-O reading intervention for children with dyslexia, and with Martha Denckla, co-authored the RAN/RAS naming speed tests, a major predictor of dyslexia across all languages.
Books - Maryanne Wolf
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Provocative and intriguing, Reader, Come Home is a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective on the impact of technology on our brains and our most essential intellectual capacities—and what this could mean for our future.
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the ... - Maryanne …
Proust and the Squid chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts.
Global Literacy — Maryanne Wolf
Global Literacy. There are nearly 800 million illiterate people in the world. If we could reduce that number by 170 million, the UN estimates are that we could remove 12% of the world’s poverty.
RAVE-O — Maryanne Wolf
Wolf, M., Miller, L., & Donnelly, K. (2000). RAVE-O: A comprehensive fluency-based reading intervention program. Journal of Learning Disabilities , 33 , 375-386.
Radio & Podcast — Maryanne Wolf
BBC Radio 2012: Series on Language. United States and Canada (selected): Kojo Nnamdi Show “Pixels vs. Pages: E-Books Take A Hit” September 2015.