About the Advisory Board Member: Dr. Paula Tallal

Dr. Tallal is a world-recognized authority on language-learning disabilities. She is a cognitive neuroscientist and a board-certified clinical psychologist and founder and co-director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University. In addition, she is active on many scientific advisory boards and government committees.

Paula received a bachelor's degree from New York University, and then received her doctorate from Cambridge University in 1974. She received further training at Johns Hopkins school of medicine before joining the faculty of UCSD, where she rose to the rank of full professor in the Department of Psychiatry.

She was recruited to Rutgers University in 1987 to co-found the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience on the Newark campus. Tallal is currently Co-Director and Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers. In 1996 Tallal co-founded Scientific Learning Corporation, in Berkeley, CA., the company that developed Fast ForWord, a new training program for children with language learning problems.