Rachelle M. Johnson, Ph.D.

Rachelle M. Johnson, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the BrainLENS lab and currently on a NIMH T32 fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. Rachelle is an interdisciplinary developmental scientist who researches the contexts of reading development, including children’s learning environments and emotions toward reading. Her main specialization is the mental health challenges and reading anxiety experienced by dyslexic children. She conducts this research using open science practices, structural equation modeling, longitudinal designs, and meta-analysis. At UConn and Yale, Rachelle is extending her research into neuroscience.