Robert Savage
Associate Professor
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
McGill University
3700 McTavish Street, #420
tel: 514-398-3435
e-mail: robert.savage(at)mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Associate member
Research Themes
Language Acquisition
Visual Language Processing
Areas of Expertise
The development of cognitive processes in normal reading and spelling in the early years; the cognitive psychology of poor reading and developmental dyslexia; early identification and intervention.
Current Research Interests
Dr. Savage has a range of interests in children's reading and spelling acquisition, including research on basic cognitive processes in normal early reading development such as analogy and inference-use, the cognitive processing problems in poor readers and dyslexics, such as phonological awareness, and rapid naming and the early identification and effective intervention for reading and spelling problems in schools.
Selected Publications
- Savage, R. S. (2004). Motor skills, automaticity and developmental dyslexia: A review of the research literature. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17, 3, 301-324.
- Savage, R., Carless, S., & Stuart, M. (2003). The effects of rime- and phoneme-based teaching delivered by learning support assistants. Journal of Research in Reading, 26(3), 211-233).
- Savage, R. S. (2001). A re-evaluation of the evidence for orthographic analogies: A reply to Goswami (1999). Journal of Research in Reading, 24(1), 1-19.
- Savage R.S. & Stuart, M. (2001). Orthographic analogies and early reading: Explorations of performance and variation in two transfer tasks. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 3, 1-27.
