Linda S. Siegel (born 1942) is an American-born psychologist and academic known for her research into the cognitive aspects of learning disabilities.
[2] Siegel was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in New York City where her family moved when she was six years old.
[6] Her most recent book, Understanding dyslexia and other learning disabilities, was published by Pacific Educational Press in 2013.
[1] In her 2012 paper "Confessions and Reflections of the Black Sheep of the Learning Disabilities Field", Siegel presented evidence from her long-term research to support her contention "that the IQ score is unnecessary in the diagnosis of whether or not there is a learning disability".
[11] Works with overviews of Siegel's research include Brueggemann Taylor's 2014 book Diagnostic Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Childhood and the 2003 article by Hayman-Abello et al., "Human neuropsychology in Canada: The 1990s".