H. Lee Swanson

Professor of Educational Psychology
University of California-Riverside

H. Lee Swanson, Ph.D., holds an endowed chair and holds the rank of distinguished professor at the University of California at Riverside. He was previously a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology/School Psychology at the University of British Columbia and University of Northern Colorado. He did his postdoctoral work at UCLA in the area of cognitive psychology and doctoral work in educational psychology at the University of New Mexico.

His primary research interests are in the area of memory, mathematics, reading, and dynamic assessment. He has published a norm referenced test utilizing the principles of dynamic assessment in isolating working memory deficits. He recently has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Science) to conduct a longitudinal study on the relationship between working memory, mathematics, and problem solving in children. He has more than 250 publications in such journals as Intelligence, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Memory & Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, and Review of Educational Research. He served as editor of the Learning Disability Quarterly from 1988 to 1998. He serves on the review board of 15 journals. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Learning Disabilities. He has two recent text books: Handbook of Learning Disabilities, co-edited with Karen Harris and Steve Graham, and A Comprehensive Analysis of Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-analysis of the Literature, co-written with Maureen Hoskyn and Carole Lee.

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