Professor of Psychological Sciences; Director, Brain Imaging Research Center, University of Connecticut; Director, Laboratory for Learning Engineering and Neural Systems (brainLENS.org) located at University of Connecticut and the University of California, San Francisco; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Institute for Neurosciences and Dyslexia Center, University of California, San Francisco; Senior Scientist & Senior Advisor, Haskins Laboratories; Co-Director of Haskins L2 (Language & Literacy) Global Innovation Hub, Yale University; Recipient of the 2015 Transforming Education through Neuroscience Award from Learning & the Brain Foundation; Co-Author, "Direct and Indirect Contributions of Executive Function to Word Decoding and Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten” (2019, Learning & Individual Differences), “Impact of Mentoring on Socio‐Emotional and Mental Health Outcomes of Youth with Learning Disabilities and Attention‐Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (2019, Child and Adolescent Mental Health), and “Brain Basis of Cognitive Resilience: Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Better Reading Comprehension in Relation to Decoding” (2018, PloS One)
Events
Applying the Science of Learning and Reading to IEP and 504 Accommodations
Peer Mentoring and Social-Emotional Resilience in Youth With Learning Difficulties
Using the Neuroscience of Anxiety, Social-Emotional, and Mental Health in Reading and Learning Disorders to Rethink 504 and IEP Accommodations
Using the Neuroscience of Learning Difficulties and Social Emotional Skills to Rethink 504 Accommodations
The Neuroscience of Learning Difficulties and Giftedness: Rethinking 504 Accommodations
Dyslexia, Learning Differences, and Innovation