Rebecca Givens Rolland, EDD

Dr. Rebecca Givens Rolland is a speech pathologist and an adjunct lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education who has served as an oral and written language specialist in the Neurology Department at Children’s Hospital Boston. She gives frequent keynote addresses, including recently at Luminario in Peru, Edcamp in Ukraine (virtual), and the Family Action Network, and offers professional development services to clinicians, organizations, and schools. Her nonfiction book The Art of Talking with Children was published in March 2022 by HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins, and will be translated into over 11 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Ukrainian and Romanian. She writes a popular blog for Psychology Today and consults for the World Bank. She is the recipient of the Dana Award in Fiction, as well as the May Sarton New Hampshire First Book Award, and writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her writing has appeared in USA Today, Salon, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Brain, Child, Magazine, Kveller, Harvard Education Letter, EdSurge, Education Week, and The Huffington Post. She has an EdD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MS in Speech-Language Pathology from the MGH Institute of Health Professions, an MA in English from Boston University, and a BA in English from Yale.