Research Interests
Educational Background
Recent publications
Research Interests
- Reading and Writing Processes in Normal and Deficient in Arabic
- Relationship Between the Development of Reading and language Development
- Diagnosis and Intervention in the field of Learning Disabilities
Educational Background
1995 B.A School of Education and Department of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2002 Department of Special Education, University of Haifa
2013 Ph.D. Morphological structures in visual word recognition, Departmentof Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa
2015 Post-doctoral studies, Reading Fluency – developing RAP program in Arabic, Department of Learning Disabilities, Edmond J. Safra Brain
Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa.
Recent publications
- Bar-On, A., Shalhoub-Awwad, Y., & Tuma, R. (in press). Contribution of phonological and morphological information in reading Arabic: A developmental Perspective. Applied Psycholinguistics. (I.F. = 1.970, Linguistics: R =16/182, Q = 1, Experimental psychology: R =43/84, Q = 3)
- Shalhoub-Awwad, Y., (submitted). The role of nominal word pattern in Arabic reading acquisition: Insights from cross-modal priming.
- Shalhoub-Awwad, Y., & Leikin, M. (2016). The lexical status of the root in processing morphologically complex words in Arabic. Scientific Studies of Reading, 20(4), 296-310.