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The Samuel Torrey Orton Award 

HTTP://www.interdys.org/ewebeditpro5/upload/orton.jpgThe Samuel Torrey Orton Award is The International Dyslexia Association’s highest honor. The Award recognizes a person or persons or who have:

  • Made a vital contribution to our scientific understanding of dyslexia, or
  • Significantly enhanced and advanced our capacity to successfully intervene and assist people with dyslexia, or
  • Expanded national and international awareness of dyslexia, or
  • Demonstrated unusual competence and dedication in service to people with dyslexia

Recipients of the Samuel Torrey Orton Award

Year    Recipient(s)

C:\Users\kpenczek\AppData\Local\Temp\DSC_2742.jpg2012    Sally & Bennett Shaywitz
2011    Maryanne Wolf
2010    Marilyn Jager Adams
2009    Susan Brady & Hollis Scarborough
2008    Hugh W. Catts
2007    Uta Frith
2006    Joseph Torgesen
2005    Margaret Snowling
2004    Martha Bridge Denckla
2003    Jack M. Fletcher
2002    Bruce F. Pennington
C:\Users\kpenczek\AppData\Local\Temp\DSC_2742.jpg2001    Gordon F. Sherman & Disability Rights Advocates
2000    G. Reid Lyon
1999    Howard G. Gardner
1998    Priscilla L. Vail
1997    C. Wilson Anderson, Jr.
1996    Jeanne S. Chall
1995    Jeanette Jansky
1994    Rosa Hagin
1993    Lucia R. Karnes
1992    Sylvia O. Richardson
1991    Dorothy B. Whitehead & Carolyn and Carl Kline
C:\Users\kpenczek\AppData\Local\Temp\DSC_2742.jpg1990    Diana H. King
1989    Regina Cicci
1988    William Ellis & Isabelle Liberman
1987    Lucius Waites & Alice Gardside
1986    Che Kan Leong & John Bigelow
1985    Alice Koontz & Norman Geschwind-(posthumously)
1984    Robert G. Hall
1983    Eleanor T. Hall
1982    Drake D. Duane
1981    Arthur Benton
1980    Helene Durbrow & Leon Eisenberg
C:\Users\kpenczek\AppData\Local\Temp\DSC_2742.jpg1979    J. Roswell Gallagher
1978    Paula D. Rome
1977    Aylett R. Cox
1976    Roger E. Saunders
1975    Richard Masland
1974    Macdonald Critchley
1973    Sally Child
1972    Beth Slingerland
1971    Margaret Byrd Rawson
1970    Lloyd J. Thompson
1969    June Lyday Orton
1968    Katrina deHirsh
1967    Edwin Cole
1966    Lauretta Bender