Sally Shaywitz (born 1942) is an American physician-scientist who is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University.

[2] She earned her undergraduate degree at City College of New York, and originally considered a career in law.

[1] The longitudinal study data also showed that the achievement gap in reading between typical and dyslexic students occurs early – in first grade and persists.

This finding impelled her to develop an evidence-based efficient screener to identify at risk beginning in kindergarten.

[6] According to Shaywitz, dyslexia arises due to inefficient function in the neural systems responsible for skilled reading.

[7] Shaywitz developed the "Sea of Strengths" model, which explains that dyslexia is a deficit in language processing.