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Dr. Judy Wiener

Professor Emerita, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto

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Judy Wiener is Professor Emerita of School and Clinical Child Psychology in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at OISE/University of Toronto. Dr. Wiener has done research on self-perceptions, family and peer relationships of children and adolescents with ADHD and learning disabilities and the efficacy of school-based and mindfulness interventions for these youth. Her primary clinical expertise is assessment and psychosocial interventions with children and adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD, and immigrants and refugees. Dr. Wiener was previously President of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities and Chair of the Educational and School Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association.  She has received several teaching awards from the University of Toronto and Life Time Achievement Awards from the Canadian Psychological Association and the Section for Psychologists in Education of the Ontario Psychological Association. She has published over 100 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She co-authored a book published by Springer Publishers entitled Psychological Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children and Adolescents:  A Practitioner’s Guide and is authoring an edited volume on family and peer relationships of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders to be published by Springer Nature.