Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, teacher and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is UCLA Professor-in-Residence of Education and Director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice, and was the Chapman University Presidential Fellow from 2018 to 2022. She is also the former Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research and a professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, and a permanent academician in the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She completed her doctorate in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, where she began her work in cognitive neuroscience and developmental psycholinguistics on the reading brain, literacy development and dyslexia. She proposed an alternative conceptualization of dyslexia that emphasizes multiple possible sources of breakdown, which became the basis for diagnostic tools that identify subtypes of struggling readers, and she created the RAVE-O intervention program for children with dyslexia and beginning readers.