About Dr. Sapon

Stanley M, Sapon, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psycholinguistics at the University of Rochester (N.Y.), where he was Director of the Verbal Behavior Laboratory and the Child Language Development Center. Since earning his Doctorate at Columbia University in 1949, he has taught at universities in this country and abroad, and carried out extensive research in learning at Harvard University and the University of California Los Angeles. He was Director of Research in Verbal Behavior at the Britannica Center for Studies in Learning in Palo Alto, California.

In 1958, Dr. Sapon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support his work in Sociolinguistics. He held the Chair of Peninsular Languages at The University of Barcelona, Spain, and as a Visiting Scholar in the Phonetics Department at The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he did experimental work in the physiology of speech and speech synthesis.

In his career as an educator and a scientist, Dr. Sapon has made contributions to the fields of linguistics, experimental phonetics, programmed learning, behavioral psychology, sociolinguistics, and the psychology of language. Over the last 50 years, he has lectured and conducted workshops in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and French. Since 1986, he has devoted his private practice to rehabilitative work with children with severe verbal deficits, and their families.

Dr. Sapon has been an active proponent of a vegan lifestyle for 28 years, and his extensive writings have earned him respect as a vegan philosopher. In 1989, he and his wife Rhoda founded the Rochester Area Vegetarian Society. As dedicated hunger activists, they established, and continue to direct, the Maimonides Project- a grassroots hunger action organization. They have both served as members of the Board of Trustees of the North American Vegetarian Society.