05/07/2025
David A. Kilpatrick, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Adjunct Lecturer, 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.
Kilpatrick, was also an invited panelist at the Reading League Summit on Wednesday April 23 in Chicago, Illinois. His panel’s topic was “Word Recognition: Consensus and Critique” and focused on how students remember written words for later retrieval.