Maureen W. Lovett, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Maureen W. Lovett, Ph.D., C.Psych., Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Services,
University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Neurosciences and Mental Health
Program; and Director, Learning Disabilities Research Program, The Hospital
for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X8.
Maureen W. Lovett is a Senior Scientist in the Neurosciences and Mental Health
Program at The Hospital for Sick Children and a Professor of Pediatrics and
Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on questions
about the effective remediation of decoding, word identification, fluency,
and reading comprehension impairments in struggling readers in elementary,
middle, and high schools. As a coprincipal investigator of the Institute of Education
Sciences-funded
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy, she is developing
interventions for adult literacy learners as well. She and her team are also
involved in knowledge translation initiatives: Their Empower™ Reading intervention
programs are now used to teach struggling readers in school districts
in four Canadian provinces.