Reading and the Brain with Dr. Maryann Wolf (BSP 29)

Dr. Maryanne Wolf, Director of The Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University

Brain Science Podcast #29 is an interview with cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. I discussed her book in Episode 24, so this interview was an opportunity to ask her some follow-up questions, and to focus more on how children learn to read. Dr. Wolf shares her ten years of experience helping children learn to read and developing programs to help children with problems like dyslexia. She shares some practical advice for parents as well as her concerns about how reliance on the internet could influence reading skills.

I enjoyed the conversation and, while I especially want to share this episode with parents, I think Dr. Wolf gives everyone some interesting ideas to consider. Listen to the interview.

Links:

• Maryanne Wolf:
  
  
  
  • Faculty page at Tufts
  
  
  • Director of The Center for Reading and Language Development
  
  
  • Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
  
  

• The Center for Reading and Language Development (Tufts University)


• RAVE-O: A Comprehensive, Fluency-Based Reading Intervention Program

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[Dr. Ginger Campbell’s Bl]

[...] Brain Science Podcast #29 is an interview with cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. I discussed her book in Episode 24, so this interview was an opportunity to ask her some follow-up questions, and to focus more on how children learn to read. Dr. Wolf shares her ten years of experience helping children learn to read and developing programs to help children with problems like dyslexia. She shares some practical advice for parents as well as her concerns about how reliance on the internet could influence reading skills. [...]

[Kevin D. Washburn]

Nicholas Carr references Dr. Wolf's writing in his discussion of the internet's influences on our brains. See pages 56-63 of the current (July/August 2008) Atlantic Monthly or read online at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google.

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