Laurie Cutting

Patricia and Rodes Hart Associate Professor of Special Education, Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Pediatrics, and Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1997

Joined faculty in 2010

Laurie E. Cutting, Ph.D., is a Patricia and Rodes Hart Associate Professor of Special Education, Psychology, and Radiology. She is also a Research Affiliate of Haskins Laboratories and a member of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute as well as the Center for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University. She is the principal investigator of several NIH-funded research projects on reading and reading comprehension and a co-investigator on other NIH-funded and Department of Education-funded projects on reading, reading disabilities, and ADHD. She focuses on brain-behavior relations in children and adolescents, with a particular emphasis on reading disabilities, language and executive function.

Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, she was is a research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute and an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University. During her doctoral work at Northwestern University, she completed internships at Yale University School of Medicine's Center for Learning and Attention and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In 2002-2003, she completed an NIH science policy fellowship.

She has written and co-authored articles on reading, reading disabilities, other learning disorders, and ADHD.

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