Dr. Wolf received her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College, with concentrations in genetics and bioethics. She received a master's degree in general psychology from New York University and a doctorate in neuropsychology from City University of New York. Dr. Wolf was a postdoctoral fellow in clinical neuropsychology at the Cornell University Medical College. Prior to coming to Boston, she held faculty appointments in psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Columbia University School of Medicine. Dr. Wolf has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has published and presented extensively on attention and cognitive functioning in children and young adults. She has co-edited the texts Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: Brain Mechanisms and Life Outcomes (2001) published by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and is senior co-editor of Adult Learning Disorders: Current Controversies (2008), the Psychology Press of Taylor and Francis. She is co-authoring Asperger’s Syndrome: A Professional Guide to Higher Education to appear in 2008.

Dr. Wolf holds faculty appointment s as assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and as adjunct associate professor of rehabilitation sciences at the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. Her research interests include the neuropsychology of attention disorders and service delivery for students with Asperger’s Syndrome and other neuropsychiatric disabilities.

Deanna earned her Bachelor’s degree in ASL-English Interpreting at Northeastern University, and holds a Certificate of Interpretation as granted by the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Prior to taking on the position of coordinator, Deanna spent more than two years as the Staff Interpreter for Boston University as well as more than two years prior at the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing as an Interpreter Referral Specialist, matching interpreters to assignments throughout the Southeastern Massachusetts Region.

As Coordinator, Deanna is responsible for arranging all necessary services and equipment for deaf and hard of hearing students, faculty, and guests of the University. She also oversees the Boston University Center for Interpreter Education (BUCIE).