RSI Leadership Rehab Rounds - Towards Linguistically/Culturally Responsive Child Language Research & Assessment Practices

Speaker:

Insiya Bhalloo
PhD Candidate (Speech-Language Pathology)
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto

Presentation Title:

Towards Linguistically/Culturally Responsive Child Language Research & Assessment Practices: Examining the Urdu Phonological Tele-Assessment Tool (U-PASS) in Bilingual Children across Pakistan and Canada 

Speaker Bio:

A graduate from RSI's MSc program (2021) and UTSC’s Psycholinguistics Specialist program (Honours, B.A in Psycholinguistics, Specialist and Minor in Psychology, 2018), Insiya is especially interested in facilitating the development of culturally-effective speech-language and literacy assessment and therapy tools. She is also conversant in multiple languages (including Urdu, Swahili, Gujrati and Farsi)! Insiya is passionate about contributing to the research field of multi-literacy and language-specific research – one of the many reasons why she enjoys her work as an PhD Candidate at the Bilingual and Multilingual (BAM) Lab under supervision of Dr. Monika Molnar. Her current work focuses on developing heritage-language literacy assessment tools, such as the Urdu Phonological Tele-Assessment Tool (U-PASS), to ensure all children have access to early literacy assessment and intervention. As co-founder of the Multi-Literacies Open Network (M-LION), Insiya is passionate about facilitating global-Canadian collaborations between communities, clinicians, and researchers. Insiya is excited to join the Multilingual Families Lab at the University of Alberta (under Dr. Andrea MacLeod) as a postdoctoral fellow in January.

Zoom Details:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88415010912
Dial in: 647-374-4685, Meeting ID: 884 1501 0912, Passcode: 314876