Wei Zhao’Bio was born in P.R. China in 1965，a former Associate Dean of School of Education at Shaanxi Normal University. Now, She is a professor of Educational Psychology Advisor to Ph.D students and conducting research mainly on Learning Disabilities. She is an AERA member CAERDA（Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association）member, and OMPE member in China. Zhao holds a Bachelor and a Master Degrees of School Education and Comparative Education in Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China in 1990s, Zhao received a Ph.D degree in Educational Psychology and Special Education from East China Normal University in Shanghai, China and UBC in Canada in 2004. Her specialization is on Learning Disabilities in both Chinese and English. She has conducted more than ten national research projects on Learning disabilities, Language acquisition in early age and English Immersion teaching, such as A Research on Cognitive Mechanism of Early Childhood’s Written Language Learning, Cognitive Assessment System Development of Chinese Learning Disabilities and its educational Intervention, From image to text, Research on children's written language acquisition, etc . and had published more than 40 academic papers and books, such as About the Empirical Research and Theoretical Analysis of Cognitive Process in Reading and Reading Difficulties, Cognition Processing of Reading from cross-linguistic studies, etc . She has been invited, as an External Examiner of M.A. in Early Childhood Education program, by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Invited by Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the United States Department of State as IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Program) to visit schools and educational institutions in Washington DC, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Atlanta Georgia and San Francisco, California. She also has been invited to give speeches at conferences in mainland China、Taiwan and Macao, etc.
Contact info:
Email:wzhao@email.arizona.edu
Phone Number: 029-520