Lesly Wade-Woolley, BA, MA, PhD
Contact
Associate Professor with Tenure, Faculty of Education - Educational Psychology Dept
- wadewool@ualberta.ca
Interim Grad Coordinator, Faculty of Education - Educational Psychology Dept
- wadewool@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
At U Alberta since July 2019. Formerly at Queen's University in the Faculty of Education, and at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
Spinner, weaver, aficionado of murder mysteries.
Research
Research interests include:
- Reading development and reading disorders.
- Language bases of literacy development, with a special interest in prosody, or speech rhythm.
- Developmental language disorder and its relationship with co-occurring reading disorders.
- Professional development of teachers around reading and writing.
- Science communication.
Courses
EDPY 577 - Word Reading Difficulties: From Assessment to Intervention
This course provides an understanding of word reading development and difficulties from the cognitive and educational psychology point of views. Restricted to course-based MEd Special Education Cohort students. EDPY 577 is the 4th course in the prescribed sequence. Prerequisite: EDPY 553. Students will not receive credit for both EDPY 597: Word Reading Difficulties: From Assessment to Intervention and EDPY 577.