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Donald Shankweiler

Donald Shankweiler

Title: Professor Emeritus


Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition: Language & Cognition

E-mail: Donald.Shankweiler@uconn.edu

Office Phone: (860) 486-3522

Web site: Haskins Laboratories

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Acquisition and disorders of reading and writing
  • How literacy reconfigures the human brain

Undergraduate courses:

  • Introduction to Psychology of Language
  • Sensation and Perception

Graduate courses:

  • Reading Acquisition and Reading Disorders
  • Neuropsychology of Language

Representative Publications:

  • Shankweiler, D., Crain, S., Katz, L., Fowler, A., Liberman, A. M., Brady, S., Thornton, R., Lundquist, E., Dreyer, L., Fletcher, J. Steubing, K., Shaywitz, S. E., & Shaywitz, B. (1995). Cognitive profiles of reading-disabled children: Comparison of language skills in phonology, morphology, and syntax. Psychological Science, 6, 149-156.
  • Shankweiler, D. (1999). Words to meanings. Scientific Studies of Reading, 3, 113-127.
  • Ni, W., Constable, R. T., Mencl, W. E., Pugh, K., Fulbright, R., Shaywitz, S., Shaywitz, B., Gore, J. & Shankweiler, D. (2000). An event-related neuroimaging study distinguishing form and content in sentence processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 120-133.
  • Braze, D., Tabor, W., Shankweiler, D., & Mencl, W. E. (2007). Speaking up for vocabulary: Reading skill differences in young adults. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 40, 226-243.

Other:

  • Senior Research Staff, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT (from 1968)
  • Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories (from 2003)
  • Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 6.
  • Fellow, American Psychological Society
  • Fellow, International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities
  • Board of Governors, Academy of Aphasia (1998-2001)
  • Member, International Dyslexia Association
  • 1998 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (shared with
  • A. M. Liberman and I. Y. Liberman).
  • 1998 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (shared with A. M. Liberman and I. Y. Liberman).
  • 2007 Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistic Research, Nijmegen, NL.