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Maryanne Wolf: Helping Families Build Children’s Reading Brains
UCLA Ed & Is
July 9, by Joanie Harmon
Neuroscientist and director of UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice collaborates on international resources for families, pediatricians, and educators.
Maryanne Wolf says that when she was in the second grade, she was “always in trouble for talking much too much.” “I wrote about this in “Proust and the Squid,” my first book,” says Professor Wolf, who directs the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA. “I went to a two-room schoolhouse [that] had four grades in each room. By the second grade, I must have tested the patience of a saint. I was not the only second grader who already learned whatever the fourth grade was being taught, but I was the only one who talked incessantly about it. Everything was so interesting!” […]