Rebecca Treiman

Rebecca Treiman, is an American psychologist. She is the Burke and Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Developmental Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and head of the Reading and Language Lab there. Treiman's research focuses on spelling and reading, and especially on the linguistic factors that affect these processes.

Born in Princeton, New Jersey to Sam Bard Treiman and Joan Little Treiman, Rebecca Treiman received a B.A. in linguistics from Yale University (1976) and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (1980). She was a faculty member at Indiana University and Wayne State University before moving to Washington University in St. Louis.

Treiman has written two books on children's spelling, and has published research articles on these topics. In addition, Treiman has edited or co-edited several works on spelling and reading. Treiman was editor in chief of the Journal of Memory and Language from 1997 to 2001. She was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading in 2014.

Publications

• Treiman, Rebecca (1992). Beginning to spell : a study of first-grade children (Online-Ausg ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195062191.
• Treiman, Rebecca (2010). Spelling. Dordrecht: Springer. p. 206. ISBN 9789048149988.
• Treiman, Rebecca; Kessler, Brett (2014). How Children Learn to Write Words. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 395. ISBN 0199907978.
• Pollatsek, A; Treiman, Rebecca (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Reading. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (in press)