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IN BRIEF | DIVISION NEWS
2026 Troland Research Award: Dr. Jason Yeatman
Jason Yeatman, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and in the Graduate School of Education, has been awarded the 2026 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences. This prestigious award recognizes exceptional achievement by an early-career researcher within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology.
Dr. Yeatman has conducted pioneering research on the brain structures and processes that underlie learning to read, a topic of high relevance in both medicine and education. Using structural and functional neuroimaging, he and his team have identified neural mechanisms that underlie the process of learning to read, how these mechanisms differ in children with dyslexia compared to typical learners, and how literacy intervention programs impact the structure and function of the brain. The findings fundamentally advance how educators and scientists approach teaching children to read.
Recently, Dr. Yeatman has expanded his research scope to investigate the use of a suite of novel, online, easily accessible, and highly scalable assessments to screen and assess reading abilities in children. These tools have been used in thousands of children to identify those in need of additional support to learn to read and to monitor progress with intervention. His work here is poised to revolutionize reading education, particularly for children who traditionally have had difficulty accessing educational assessments.
ADHD Diagnosis and Timing of Medication Initiation Among Children Aged 3 to 5 Years
Yair Bannett, MD, MS; Ingrid Luo, MS; Rodrigo Azuero-Dajud, MS; et al.
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ROAR: an approved dyslexia screener in California
The state takes another step toward mandatory testing for children with reading difficulties, among the four screeners, ROAR, the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading, is published by Stanofrd University with the Brain Development and Education Lab. To read more, click here.
On April 26, 2024, Bay Area FOX, KTVU 2 interviewed our very own, Casey Krueger, PhD, discussing mental health in school-aged children and how the bill proposal to limit homework stress might be beneficial to some students in relation to bill AB 2999. View the video below.
758 Doctors for 19 Million Kids. The safety net for kids is gone.
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Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
Congratulations to Dr. Irene Loe for being elected to the Board of Directors at SDBP.
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Fifth Edition
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Heidi Feldman, MD PhD who is the Lead Co-Editor of the new book, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Fifth Edition. We have several faculty members who contributed in the book chapters such as Irene Loe, MD, Lynne Huffman, MD, David Ansel, MD, Casey Krueger, PhD, and Jessica Patel, PhD.