Elected board member
Maureen Lovett mwl@sickkids.ca
Maureen Lovett is an elected board member. She 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. She is Founder and Director of the hospital’s Learning Disabilities Research Program. She, her team, and her colleagues have contributed to learning disabilities research and practice for more than three decades, creating interventions for children and teens with severe reading disabilities, evaluating their efficacy in controlled designs, and scaling interventions up in school systems. Currently she is working with Atlanta and New Haven colleagues looking at the neurobiological profiles of treatment resisters, and with the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy on interventions for adult learners.