Human Development and Applied Psychology
David Haley
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-208-4896
Website
Email: d.haley@utoronto.ca
Esther Geva
Professor, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Acculturation
- Assessment of immigrant children
- At-risk ESL children
- Cognitive and linguistic processes
- Cross-cultural issues among immigrant children
- Cross-cultural issues among second langaguage learners
- Psychological problems in children/youth
Office: 416-978-0916
Home: 4164137776
Mobile: 416-413-7776
Languages: Hebrew, French
Email: esther.geva@utoronto.ca
Janette Pelletier
Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Director of the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Early child development and education
- Early literacy development
- Full-day kindergarten
- Integrated early years services (child care/kindergarten/parenting support)
- Kindergarten/early learning programs (English and French immersion)
- Parent involvement in early education
- Right to play
- Teacher beliefs and practices
Office: 416-934-4555
Home: 416-972-9931
Website
Email: janette.pelletier@utoronto.ca
Jennifer Jenkins
Professor, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: jenny.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Joan Peskin
Associate Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Ability to keep a secret (young children)
- Children’s understanding of people’s minds (theory of mind)
- Cognition and instruction
- How students learn
- Lying in young children
Office: 416-978-0948
Home: 416-486-6505
Website
Email: j.peskin@utoronto.ca
Judith Wiener
Professor, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Parenting of children and adolescents with ADHD and learning disabilities
- Psychological/psychoeducational assessment and diagnosis of children and adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD
- Psychological/psychoeducational assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse children and adolescents
- Self-Perceptions of children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Learning Disabilities
- The impact of special education/inclusive education on the social and emotional functioning of children and adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD
- Writing psychological reports that teachers and parents comprehend and find helpful
Office: 416-978-0935
Home: 416-654-4911
Website
Email: jwiener@oise.utoronto.ca
Katreena Scott
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Adolescent trauma (violence-related)
- Child abuse and neglect
- Dating violence
- Domestic violence
- Treatment of offenders
Office: 416-978-0971
Website
Email: katreena.scott@utoronto.ca
Marc Lewis
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0938
Home: 416-651- 0933
Email: mlewis@oise.utoronto.ca
Michele Peterson-Badali
Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0937
Home: 416-485-4684
Email: m.petersonbadali@utoronto.ca