Professor Anne Castles

Anne Castles is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, and Scientific Director of the Macquarie University Centre for Reading. 

Prof Castles’ research focuses on learning to read and reading disorders, with a particular interest in different processes in reading and how they are learned. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) and serves on the Editorial Boards of several major journals. In 2018, she served as President of Learning Difficulties Australia.

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Using cognitive models as a roadmap for assessment and teaching

Reading is a complex skill involving multiple processes, even at the single word level. In this talk, Distinguished Professor Anne Castles will give an overview of what is known about how words are read and learned in the context of an explicit cognitive model. She will then illustrate how such cognitive models can provide a “roadmap” for teachers, guiding assessment and informing how best to teach word reading for maximum effects.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM Melbourne Time

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