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COMMITTEE ON THE PREVENTION OF READING DIFFICULTIES IN YOUNG CHILDREN
CATHERINE SNOW (Chair), Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
MARILYN JAGER ADAMS, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
BARBARA T. BOWMAN, Erikson Institute, Chicago, Illinois
BARBARA FOORMAN, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas, and Houston Medical School
DOROTHY FOWLER, Fairfax County Public Schools, Annandale, Virginia
CLAUDE N. GOLDENBERG, Department of Teacher Education, California State University, Long Beach
EDWARD J. KAME'ENUI, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene
WILLIAM LABOV, Department of Linguistics and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
RICHARD K. OLSON, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder
ANNEMARIE SULLIVAN PALINCSAR, School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
CHARLES A. PERFETTI, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
HOLLIS S. SCARBOROUGH, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut
SALLY SHAYWITZ, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University
KEITH STANOVICH, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
DOROTHY STRICKLAND, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University
SAM STRINGFIELD, Center for the Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University
ELIZABETH SULZBY, School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M. SUSAN BURNS, Study Director
PEG GRIFFIN, Research Associate
SHARON VANDIVERE, Project Assistant