Julie A. Washington

Julie A. Washington (@jwashingtonPhD) is a professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and she directs the Learning Disabilities Research Innovation Hub funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Washington is also director of the Dialect, Poverty and Academic Success Lab at UCI. Her research centers on the intersection of literacy, language variation, and poverty with a focus on understanding the role of cultural dialect in assessment, identification of reading disabilities in school-aged African American children, and disentangling the relationship between language production and comprehension and the impact on the development of reading and early language skills for children growing up in poverty.