Professor & Interim Dean
School of Education

Intersection of language, literacy, and poverty in African American children; Impact of Cultural dialects on early literacy skills; language development and disorders.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Julie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English

Language Variation and Academic Success lab

Fellow, American Speech, Language, Hearing Association (2004)

Dr. Washington is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California – Irvine (UCI). She is a Speech-Language Pathologist and is a Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Dr. Washington directs the Learning Disabilities Research Innovation Hub. She is also director of the Language Variation and Academic Success (LVAS) lab at 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.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)

Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA)

International Dyslexia Association (IDA)

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Last updated
05/07/2025