Course Title: Grey Matters: Brain function & Neural Plasticity
Department: Department of Language and Communicative Disorders
Email: dwoolpert@ucsd.edu

Education

Currently Enrolled- Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego

May, 1999 –B.A. degree in English and Theatre Arts,
Drew University.

 

Experience

Academic Tutor,
05/01 – 6/03; 8/05 – present.
Independently generated junior high school, high school and college contacts. Taught students in academic areas ranging from English, writing, Algebra, and Spanish. Created learning materials and provided prompt feedback for parents while managing changing weekly schedules.

Summer Teacher,
The Athenian School,
6/04 – 8/05
Instructed a group of students ranging in age from 9 to 14 for three hours a day. Created curriculum, lesson plans, teaching materials, diagnostic tests, etc.

Substitute Teacher,
Various schools,
9/02 – 6/03
Taught in classes ranging from ten to thirty students, in subjects including English, American literature, drama, acting, and theater history.

 

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

October, 2006 – Reilly, J., Tolchinsky, L., Woolpert, D. and Wulfeck, B. (2006): Neuroplasticity and Development: Spoken and Written Narratives in Children with Early Focal Lesions and Children with Specific Language Impairment. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference of the EARLY Special Interest Group on Writing.

April, 2007 – Woolpert, D., Reilly, J. and Fenson, J. (2007): Language and Brain Plasticity: Spelling Errors in Written Narratives of Children with Early Focal Lesions. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2007.

June, 2007 – Woolpert, D., Mansfield, A., Reilly, J. and Fenson, J. (2007): Limitations on neuroplasticity: Evidence from the spelling of children with early focal brain lesion. Poster presented at Symposium on Research for Child Development, June 2007.

October, 2007 – Woolpert, D. and Reilly, J. (2007): Limits on Plasticity: Later Language and Spelling in Children with Perinatal Stroke (manuscript under preparation).

June, 2008 – Woolpert, D. and Reilly, J. (2008): Written Language Development in Children with Perinatal Stroke. Poster to be presented at the 11th International Conference of the EARLY Special Interest Group on Writing.