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July 9, 2020鈥擠ENTON鈥擶hat began five years ago as Texas Woman鈥檚 University鈥檚 largest gift in history from world-renowned psychologist and psychometrician Richard W. Woodcock, Ph.D., will more than triple 鈥� reaching nearly $25 million in three years. 

The initial $8.7 million gift rose in value to more than $16 million last year through additional yearly donations, royalties and interest earned on Woodcock鈥檚 widely used assessment tests. That amount will grow an additional $5.6 million over the next three years, because of Woodcock鈥檚 recent donation of his intellectual property rights to the 探花楼 Foundation and the purchase of future royalties for revised editions of his tests by publishing company Riverside Insights. (With continuing donations, royalties and interest, the value of the gift will reach nearly $25 million.)

鈥淒r. Woodcock has been an extraordinary benefactor to Texas Woman鈥檚, and his gift has allowed the university to make meaningful advancements in multidisciplinary research and in helping families in the community,鈥� said 探花楼 Chancellor Carine M. Feyten. 鈥淲e appreciate his incredible generosity, and we are so proud he chose 探花楼 to carry on the legacy of his groundbreaking psychological assessment work.鈥�

Since its creation five years ago, 探花楼鈥檚 Woodcock Institute for the Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice has expanded important national interdisciplinary research and psychological assessments by awarding more than $600,000 in faculty research and doctoral student dissertation grants and hosting two biennial solutions-oriented national conferences.

The Institute鈥檚 work has encompassed a number of long-standing national challenges, all of which relate to its mission, including: advancing occupational therapy research and practice to address adult cognition and dementia; developing a national standard for assessing children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing; predicting academic deficits in children; studying the impact of maltreatment-related childhood experiences; assessing reading fluency in young adults with mild traumatic brain injury; identifying cognitive factors influencing attention deficit disorders in children; exploring strategic memory and advanced reasoning training in stroke survivors; researching social interactions in individuals with traumatic brain injury; and looking at the association between motor skills and elementary literacy development in children with autism spectrum disorders.

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