Dr. Lorre Wolf Residency
October 25, 2019
Time: 12-2 p.m.
Location: Tang Teaching Museum, Payne Room, RSVP is required
Dr. Lorre Wolf, Director of Disability and Access Services at Boston University, will
be leading a lunch pedagogy workshop. Along with Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown, Dr. Wolfe
developed a model of service delivery for college students entitled “Strategic Education
for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.” The pedagogy workshop will discuss autism
and some symptoms; strategies for classroom management; reasonable accommodations
and access versus eligibility. There will be time for questions about specific issues.
Dr. Wolf holds a doctorate in basic and applied neuropsychology from the City University
of New York and has over 35 years of experience working with children, adolescents
and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders. She has taught experimental psychology,
assessment, and neuropsychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Wolf
has published and presented nationally and internationally on psychiatric, attention,
learning and autism spectrum disorders. She holds faculty appointments in psychiatry
and in rehabilitation sciences at Boston University. She was a co-editor of Adult
Attention Deficit Disorders: Brain Mechanisms and Life Outcomes (2001, New York Academy
of Sciences), is the senior co-editor of Learning Disorders in Adults: Contemporary
Issues (Psychology Press, 2008), and co-authored Students with Asperger Syndrome:
A Guide for College Personnel (Autism Asperger Publishing Company, 2009; Japanese
translation, 2017) and Students on the Spectrum: A College Guide for Parents (AAPC,
2011). Dr. Wolf’s interests include the neuropsychology of self-regulation and brain
models of risk-taking behavior in young adults. Along with Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown,
she developed a model of service delivery for college students entitled “Strategic
Education for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders”. Her extracurricular interests
include adventure travel, scuba diving and her dogs.