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Joseph Torgesen
Joseph Torgesen is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Education at Florida State University.[1] At the time of his retirement from the university in 2008, he was the W.
Russell and Eugenia Morcom Chair of Psychology and Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Joe torgesen biography
Education and Career
Torgesen received his Ph.D. in Developmental and Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1976, and served on the Psychology faculty at FSU from 1976 until 2008.
Torgesen's early research focused on memory processes in children with learning disabilities, but most of his career was spent investigating and writing about the language difficulties of children with specific developmental reading disabilities (dyslexia).
He is the author or co-author of over 230 books, book chapters, and articles on the psychology of reading, reading disabilities, and reading instruction.[2] His works have been cited over 54,000 times a