Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D.

Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D.

Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D., is a Clinical Professor at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and a member of the UCSF Dyslexia Research Center Leadership Team; she also teaches classes in child and adolescent psychiatry. Since 1973, she has used multisensory structured language strategies to teach students of all ages. She worked for 40 years in San Francisco public schools as a classroom teacher, special education teacher, and program consultant in special education curriculum. Currently, Dr. Cushen White works as a Certified Academic Language Therapist, Board-Certified Educational Therapist, certified Slingerland teacher training course instructor, and dyslexia consultant in her private practice at the Dyslexia Evaluation & Remediation Clinic. She has been a Literacy Intervention Consultant and Case Manager for Lexicon Reading Center in Dubai since 2010. A member of the AB 1369 Work Group (California Department of Education) charged with drafting public school dyslexia guidelines required under the new law, Dr. Cushen White was also recipient of the 2007 Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award from The International Dyslexia Association (IDA), the 2014 Etoile DuBard Award of Excellence from the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC), and the 2016 Lucius Waites Award of Service from the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA). She has served as a national IDA board member and as President of its Northern California Branch. She is an IDA representative to the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities; editor of the Examiner, IDA's monthly online newsletter; board member of IMSLEC and the Alliance for Certification and Accreditation; advisory board member for IDA's Northern California Branch and for Parents Education Network (PEN), and an advisor for PENs student- organized, student- led SAFE Voices branch.