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Bennett A. Shaywitz

Bennett A. Shaywitz

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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
90
Citations
42115
World Ranking
193
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Bennett A. Shaywitz is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, social sciences, and medicine, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, psychiatry and mental health, education, statistics and probability, and safety research.

The scientist's work addresses topics including reading and literacy development, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, disability education and employment, education systems and policy, youth substance use and school attendance, and early childhood education and development.

Recent papers by Bennett A. Shaywitz include:

  • The American experience: towards a 21st century definition of dyslexia (2020, Oxford Review of Education)
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2020, Pediatric Care Online)

Other notable papers coauthored in related fields are:

  • Dyslexia in the 21st century (2020, Current Opinion in Psychiatry)
  • The Yale Outcome Study: Outcomes for graduates with and without dyslexia (2020, Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology)
  • Family history is not useful in screening children for dyslexia (2021, Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology)

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Sally E. Shaywitz
  • John M. Holahan
  • Emilio Ferrer
  • Jack Μ. Fletcher
  • David J. Francis

Their research has been published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Current Opinion in Psychiatry
  • Oxford Review of Education
  • Pediatric Care Online

Bennett A. Shaywitz was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • A Definition of Dyslexia.

    G. Reid Lyon;Sally E. Shaywitz;Bennett A. Shaywitz

  • Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language

    Bennett A. Shaywitz;Sally E. Shaywltz;Kenneth R. Pugh;Kenneth R. Pugh;R. Todd Constable

  • Disruption of posterior brain systems for reading in children with developmental dyslexia.

    Bennett A Shaywitz;Sally E Shaywitz;Kenneth R Pugh;Kenneth R Pugh;W.Einar Mencl;W.Einar Mencl

  • Prevalence of reading disability in boys and girls. Results of the Connecticut Longitudinal Study.

    Sally E. Shaywitz;Bennett A. Shaywitz;Jack M. Fletcher;Michael D. Escobar

  • Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia

    S E Shaywitz;B A Shaywitz;K R Pugh;R K Fulbright

  • Developmental Lag versus Deficit Models of Reading Disability: A Longitudinal, Individual Growth Curves Analysis.

    David J. Francis;Sally E. Shaywitz;Karla K. Stuebing;Bennett A. Shaywitz

  • Dyslexia (Specific Reading Disability)

    Sally E. Shaywitz;Bennett A. Shaywitz

  • Cognitive profiles of reading disability: Comparisons of discrepancy and low achievement definitions.

    Jack M. Fletcher;Sally E. Shaywitz;Donald P. Shankweiler;Leonard Katz

  • Evidence That Dyslexia May Represent the Lower Tail of a Normal Distribution of Reading Ability

    Sally E. Shaywitz;Michael D. Escobar;Bennett A. Shaywitz;Jack M. Fletcher

  • Development of left occipitotemporal systems for skilled reading in children after a phonologically- based intervention.

    Bennett A Shaywitz;Sally E Shaywitz;Benita A Blachman;Kenneth R Pugh;Kenneth R Pugh

  • Cerebral organization of component processes in reading

    Pugh Kr;Shaywitz Ba;Shaywitz Se;Constable Rt

  • Functional neuroimaging studies of reading and reading disability (developmental dyslexia)

    Kenneth R. Pugh;Kenneth R. Pugh;W. Einar Mencl;W. Einar Mencl;Annette R. Jenner;Annette R. Jenner;Leonard Katz;Leonard Katz

  • Persistence of dyslexia: the Connecticut Longitudinal Study at adolescence.

    Sally E. Shaywitz;Jack M. Fletcher;John M. Holahan;Abigail E. Shneider

  • Subtypes of reading disability: Variability around a phonological core.

    Robin D. Morris;Karla K. Stuebing;Jack M. Fletcher;Sally E. Shaywitz

  • Neurobiological studies of reading and reading disability.

    Kenneth R Pugh;Kenneth R Pugh;W.Einar Mencl;W.Einar Mencl;Annette R Jenner;Annette R Jenner;Leonard Katz;Leonard Katz

  • Validity of IQ-Discrepancy Classifications of Reading Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis

    Karla K. Stuebing;Jack M. Fletcher;Josette M. LeDoux;G. Reid Lyon

  • Neural systems for compensation and persistence: young adult outcome of childhood reading disability.

    Sally E Shaywitz;Bennett A Shaywitz;Robert K Fulbright;Pawel Skudlarski

  • Cognitive Profiles of Reading-Disabled Children: Comparison of Language Skills in Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax

    D. Shankweiler;D. Shankweiler;S. Crain;S. Crain;L. Katz;L. Katz;A.E. Fowler

  • The Education of Dyslexic Children from Childhood to Young Adulthood

    Sally E. Shaywitz;Robin Morris;Bennett A. Shaywitz

  • Paying attention to reading: The neurobiology of reading and dyslexia

    Sally E. Shaywitz;Bennett A. Shaywitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally E. Shaywitz
Sally E. Shaywitz Yale University
Donald J. Cohen
Donald J. Cohen Yale University
Kenneth R. Pugh
Kenneth R. Pugh Haskins Laboratories
Leonard Katz
Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories
Robert K. Fulbright
Robert K. Fulbright Yale University
W. Einar Mencl
W. Einar Mencl Yale University
Pawel Skudlarski
Pawel Skudlarski Yale University
Jack M. Fletcher
Jack M. Fletcher University of Houston
Donald Shankweiler
Donald Shankweiler University of Connecticut
R. Todd Constable
R. Todd Constable Yale University

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