Research
I joined the Faculty of Psychology, Educational Sciences, and Speech Therapy in 2007 as an assistant. After completing a PhD (2014–2020) on the effects of interactive reading on kindergarten children and their environment, I was awarded a mini-chair in disability psychology in 2022. Since then, my main focus has been on young children with complex communication needs and the use of interactive reading supported by augmentative and alternative communication to support their literacy development. I am also studying various issues related to the school inclusion of students with special needs, including developmental language disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and attention deficit disorder. More broadly, I am interested in parent/teacher-child interactions and the promotion of facilitative and supportive communicative practices in the context of language difficulties.
