David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, did a spoken presentation at the New England Research on Dyslexia Society on Friday April 4. The conference was held at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. His presentation was “The persistence of phonemic proficiency deficits in high school students with reading disability: How orthographic mapping theory explains dyslexia.” David represented SUNY while other presenters were from Harvard, Yale, MIT, the University of Connecticut and Florida State University, which for decades has been a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development funding hub for dyslexia.