Maryanne Wolf

Professor of child development Maryanne Wolf explains how the human brain learns to read – and why some people have a very difficult time learning how to read, as in the case of dyslexics. Her recent book is Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading ...

Unlike vision and speech, reading has no direct genetic program passing it on to future generations. So where did this unlikely skill come from? And why do some people, like dyslexics, find it hard to read? Maryanne Wolf, a professor of child development, explores these complicated questions in Proust and ...