Stories by Rosemary Tannock

Rosemary Tannock, PhD, holds a Canada Research Chair in Special Education and Adaptive Technology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in the University of Toronto. She is a Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, a Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Special Education & Adaptive Instruction at the University of Toronto. She has research appointments with the Graduate Departments of Education and Psychology at the University of Western Australia. Her clinical research program investigates the causes and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a specific focus on its cognitive manifestations and overlap with learning disabilities. She and her colleagues recently developed TeachADHD, a set of integrated multimedia resources on ADHD for teachers. She has received the Citizen of the Year Award for mentorship from the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children, Visiting Scholar and Distinguished Visitor Awards from the University of Western Australia a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers, and is on the Steering Committee for the World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) – Development of Core ICF Sets for ADHD.