Linda M. Phillips is a Centennial Professor and Director of the Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Linda has published extensively on her work in reading including a test of children’s inferential reasoning; reading in conventional and dynamic assessment contexts; the study of emergent and family literacy; and, the use of fMRI studies in understanding reading development. Dr. Phillips brings years of diagnosis, prevention, remediation, intervention, and teaching to testing early language and literacy.
Denyse V. Hayward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. Denyse completed her doctoral studies in Rehabilitation Science at the University of Alberta. She has also co-authored an oral narrative test. She worked as a speech-language pathologist in Alberta for close to two decades (Calgary Board of Education, REACH program, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, AHS). Dr. Hayward beings her clinical expertise coupled with her research interests and publications to her focus on functional and naturalistic assessment and intervention practises for children from at-risk populations to testing early language and literacy.