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Lesly Wade-Woolley is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Education, serving concurrently as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. Previously, she held positions at Queen's University and the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on reading development, prosody's role in literacy, developmental language disorders, and teacher professional development. She holds a BA, MA, and PhD in relevant fields.
Research interests include the interplay between prosody and reading comprehension, linguistic influences on literacy, and evidence-based teacher training. Notably, she served as past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
Her teaching includes courses like EDPY 580 (Reading Comprehension Difficulties). Publications span topics such as prosodic competence across languages and multisyllabic word reading. While no formal awards are listed, her leadership roles highlight her academic contributions.
Her work emphasizes bridging theory and practice in education, with a focus on interventions for reading disorders and fostering effective teacher collaboration.
