UMD College of Education in conjunction with the School of Public Policy, the MD Department of Education & the NAACP of Maryland are holding a 1-day summit to examine “the literacy gap” & to bring government and community stakeholders together to develop actionable solutions #EdTerps #UMD

Interesting Hehui Li meta-analysis of first and #secondlanguage processing in the brain. The left inferior parietal lobule showed preferences for L2 reading in both types of bilinguals, suggesting increased phonological demands cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Is there a connection between mental health in young people and physical health in later life? Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi discuss this and so much more in the latest episode of The BOLD podcast, out now! bold.expert/the-bold-podca… #KJJawards #TheBOLDpodcast

These results suggest that individuals with dyslexia experience an orthographic knowledge deficit that is as large as that of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming reported in previous meta-analyses. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Wonderful to see my fabulous mentor Fumiko Hoeft MD PhD as top cited dyslexia researcher 👏 (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.…)

Three concrete steps educators can take to accelerate reading growth for primary students during the 2021/22 academic year ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/re…

Thrilled to share Episode 17 of the Language Neuroscience Podcast with the legendary Elissa Newport. We talk about language development, and especially language outcomes in kids with perinatal stroke. Thanks Marcia Petyt for transcription! langneurosci.org/podcast/ep17

Verbal skills mediated the relationship between spatial skills and mathematical skills, but a unique relation between the spatial and mathematical skills remained.

.Univ. of Maryland names Kimberly Griffin, M.A. '01, Ph.D., dean of the UMD College of Education. Dr. Griffin will lead the next stage of the college’s development, foster research excellence, and help shape the changing landscape of education: go.umd.edu/ckb

#EdTerps are tackling some of the most pressing societal issues, and with 10 Grand Challenges Grants to boost our research efforts, we will remain at the forefront of shaping the future of our community, nation and world: go.umd.edu/3I7HyjX #FearlesslyForward

"Full literacy has always come with barriers"-DJ Bolger, associate professor and team lead of the Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity. With the Grand Challenges Institutional Grant, MILE will engage in work aimed at increasing literacy in the US: today.umd.edu/30m-in-grand-c…

Post-doctoral position in neural development of language and reading (lab.vanderbilt.edu/boothlab/). Excellent scientific writing skills required and proficiency with MRI a plus. Send questions, cover letter with interests and CV to [email protected] by May 15, 2023.

Awesome #AERA23 session on Centering Equity in RPPs w/ Cynthia coburn & the NNERPP. Thanks for sharing your brilliant work with us! Jason Chow @bpenuel @DrJ_SLP Caitlin Farrell Dr. Jenny Root (Taylor’s Version) @laurawent Dr. Latara O. Lampkin @CamilleMWilson & Jesse Senechal at MERC

Congrats Ana Taboada Barber! Great points on "The Role of Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: 3 Takeaways" edweek.org/teaching-learn…

"If we are to be a democracy, all our citizens must be educated. At the very least that means able to read." Hear more from @KarinChenoweth & Tanji Reed Marshall, PhD in the latest episode of @edtrust's #ExtraOrdinaryDistricts edtrust.org/p/57943

The University of Maryland is recruiting young adults (ages 18-35) with reading difficulties and Dyslexia for a neuroimaging study investigating how the brain is tuned for reading words. Follow the link or email if you or someone you know may be interested.

Chuck (Perfetti) cited my work :)

Only 20% of young children with #DevLangDis receive support services. Let's change that! Here's a helpful resource for picking a screener. Led by Xue Bao with @rkomesidou 🎉

What a day! Excited to video a talk for Reading Rockets on #DevLangDis. An honor to advocate for the children and families I serve. MGH Institute DLDandMe

Great article on parent-child interactions in reading and math from my wonderful colleagues (it's great to see the gang all together... in print)! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…