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Neurocognition of Language Lab
Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College
Columbia University

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VC:Reem Khamis-Dakwar

Lab people: reem khamis-dakwarDr Reem Khamis-Dakwar is Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Adelphi University, where she runs the the Neurophysiology in Speech-Language Pathology Lab. Her research focuses on neural correlates of diglossia and bilingualism, and she collaborates with the NCLLab on several projects.
As a Palestinian speech and language pathologist from Israel, Reem worked as a lecturer at Beit-Beril College and Ibilline Teachers Center with pre-service and in-service teachers in special and early education. In addition, she worked with children with developmental delays and/or disorders including children with autism and language-learning disabilities. She is a native speaker of Palestinian Colloquial Arabic (PCA). She also commands Modern standard Arabic (MSA), and is fluent in Hebrew.

She received her first and second degrees from Tel-Aviv University . Her Master's thesis explored the acquisition of VSO and SVO sentences in Palestinian Colloquial Arabic (PCA). Reem's doctoral work was sponsored by the IASP scholarship (Fulbright), and by Teachers College, and she was awarded the Dean's Diversity Fellowship. Her dissertation explored "Syntactic and Morphological Development in Arabic Diglossic Situation" , and was supervised by Professor Peter Gordon, Professor Karen Froud, and Professor Zhao-Hong Han. Her research interests include: neural correlates of linguistic processing in diglossic situations, language assessment for children from culturally and linguistically diverse populations, and augmentative and alternative communication assessment and intervention for Arab populations.

Email: rk2121@columbia.edu