Developmental Dyslexia—Early Precursors, Neurobehaviorial Markers, and Biological Substrates

Dr. Benasich is Professor of Neuroscience and Director of InfancyStudies at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience.Her research focuses on the study of early neural processes necessaryfor typical and disordered language development. Specifically,she studies the development of temporally bounded sensoryinformation processing (shown to be a major predictor of languageimpairment and dyslexia), the neural substrates that support thesedeveloping abilities and the relations seen with emerging languageand cognitive abilities from infancy through early childhood.

Dr. Black is Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College.

Dr. de Bree is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pedagogical Sciences at Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Dr. Chandrasekaran is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Michelle Chang is Research Study Assistant at Childrena€?s Hospital Boston.

Alicia Che is a Graduate Assistant in Physiology and Neurobiology at University of Connecticut.

Dr. Choudhury is Associate Professor of Psychology at Ramapo College of New Jersey and at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Dr. Demonet is Director of the Memory Center in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at CHUV & University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Dr. Facoetti is Assistant Professor in Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale at UniversitA di Padova in Padova, Italy.

Dr. Fitch received her B.S. from Duke University and her Ph.D. inbiobehavioral sciences (concentration in developmental psychobiology)from The University of Connecticut. Her research centers onunderstanding how the disruption of early brain development underliessubsequent cognitive disabilities, with a particular focus onrisk factors for language-relevant skills. Topics of research includeanimal models of brain damage typical of premature and term birthinsult, as well as animal models for genetic risk factors associatedwith cognitive disability.

Dr Gaab is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and in the Department of Medicine at Childrena€?s Hospital Boston.

Dr. Gerrits is Professor and Faculty of Health Care at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in The Netherlands.

P. Ellen Grant is Chair in Neonatology at Childrena€?s Hospital Boston, and Founding Director of the Fetal-NeonatalNeuroimaging & Developmental Science Center. Dr. Grant is also Director of Fetal and NeonatalNeuroimaging Research at Childrena€?s Hospital Boston, Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Childrena€?s Hospital Boston, and Department of Medicine, Division of Newborn Medicine in Department of Radiology, Divisionof Neuroradiology.

Dr. Grigorenko is an Associate Professor at Yale University.

Dr. Hayes is Associate Professor and Clinical Director of Clinical Foundations at Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee, FL.

Dr. Herbert is Assistant Professor, Neurology (Pediatric) at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Hoeft is Instructor of Psychiatry, Associate Director of CIBSR at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Kraus is a Hugh Knowles Professor (Communication Sciences;Neurobiology and Physiology;Otolaryngology), Director, Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University.

Dr. Leonard is Emeritus Professor at University of Florida in the Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute in Gainesville.

Dr. LoTurco is Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology at the University of Connecticut, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology in Storrs, CT.

Dr. Maassen is Clinical Neuropsychologist, Full Professor in Dyslexia at University of Groningen Center for Language and Cognition in Groningen, The Net