Lesly Wade-Woolley, BA, MA, PhD
Contact
Assoc Dean - Graduate Studies, Faculty of Education - Deans Office
- 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.
Featured Publications
Wade-Woolley, L., Wood, C., Chan, J. S., & Weidman, S.
Scientific Studies of Reading. 2021 October; 10.1080/10888438.2021.1995390
Heggie, L. & Wade-Woolley, L.
Reading Psychology. 2018 January; 39 10.1080/02702711.2017.1413021
Heggie, L. & Wade-Woolley, L.
Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. 2017 January; 2 10.1044/persp2.SIG1.86
Wade-Woolley, L.
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal,. 2016 January; 29 10.1007/s11145-015-9600-1
The contributions of prosodic and phonological awareness to reading: A review.
Wade-Woolley, L. & Heggie, L.
In J. Thomson & L. Jarmulowicz (Eds.) Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy. John Benjamins Publishers: New York.. 2016 January;
Wade-Woolley, L. & Heggie, L.
Scientific Studies of Reading. 2015 January; 19 10.1080/10888438.2014.947647