Julie Washington, Ph.D.

About Me

Dr. Washington is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California – Irvine (UCI). Currently, Dr. Washington’s research is focused on the intersection of literacy, language variation, and poverty. In particular, her work focuses on understanding the role of cultural dialect in assessment, identification of reading disabilities in school-aged African American children and on disentangling the relationship between language production and comprehension on development of reading and early language skills for children growing up in poverty.

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