Lorna Kaufman, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist who specializes in the evaluation of children with reading and language problems, and she is the author of "
Smart Kid, Can't Read." After working in diagnostic clinics at Children's Hospital in Boston, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, and University of Massachusetts Medical School, she worked in private practice. Lorna is past president of the New England Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), past member of IDA national board, past president of the Massachusetts Council for Learning Disabilities and chair of the New England Joint Conference on Learning Disabilities. She served on the Governor's advisory council for special education and has taught in the graduate program of Language and Literacy at Simons College.
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Monday, May 22, 2017
When children struggle with reading it’s important that we evaluate them to determine why they are having trouble, what part of the reading process is problematic for them, where they are on the continuum of reading disabilities and what can be done to help them achieve reading success.
