Nadeen L. Kaufman

Nadeen L. Kaufman ( born 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American psychology professor. She is known for her research in the field of learning disabilities.

Life and career

Kaufman grew up on Long Iceland. She earned the bachelor of science in 1965 Education Hofstra University, 1972 master's degree in Educational Psychology from Columbia University, and in 1975 the Ed.M. in Learning and Reading Disabilities and 1978, the Ed.D. in Special Education - Neurosciences, both at Columbia University.

Kaufman taught learning disabled children, worked as a school psychologist and founded several psychiatric hospitals. She was involved in the further development and standardization of the McCarthy Scales and the WISC -R.

Together with her husband Alan S. Kaufman made ​​her school psychologists and clinical psychologists and supervised the work of graduate students at the University of Georgia, the National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois, the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, and the University of Alabama.

Like her husband Alan she is one of the 52 signatories of the essay Mainstream Science on Intelligence, written by Linda Gottfredson and published in December 1994 by the Wall Street Journal.

She has a son named James C. Kaufman.