Richard K. Wagner, Ph.D.
Richard K. Wagner, Ph.D., Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Research Professor of
Psychology and W. Russell and Eugenia Morcom Chair, Florida State University; Tallahassee,
Florida; [email protected]. Dr. Wagner also is a cofounder and the current associate director
of the Florida Center for Reading Research. He earned a Ph.D. in cognitive
psychology from Yale University in 1985. He previously earned a master’s degree in
school psychology from the University of Akron. His major areas of research interest are
dyslexia and the normal acquisition of reading. He currently is the principal investigator of
the Multidisciplinary Learning Disability Center funded by NICHD.