
Insiya BhallooUniversity of Toronto | U of T · Department of Speech-Language Pathology
Insiya Bhalloo
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Introduction
Hi! I'm Insiya Bhalloo, a research student at the University of Toronto's Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI), Faculty of Medicine. I am currently completing an MSc in Speech-Language Pathology, with a particular focus on multilingualism and early childhood literacy development in Canada, and internationally. In particular, my MSc project seeks to analyze the predictors of reading development in bilingual Urdu-English Canadian children.
Insights, questions, or a shared interest in multilingualism? Please contact me : insiya.bhalloo@mail.utoronto.ca, or visit my website for more information:
https://sites.google.com/view/insiyabhalloo
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Purpose: Current reading research remains Latin script-centric in a monoliterate context, and may not be generalizable to the significant percentage of school-aged children growing up as biscriptal bilinguals globally. To address this, we examined the early stages of reading development in bilingual readers of an under-studied language combination...
Purpose: This study examines whether kindergarten-level Urdu phonological processing predicts the future Grade 1 English word and non-word reading accuracy skills of Urdu-English bilinguals in (i) Pakistan, with an Urdu as a national/societal-language country context, and (ii) Canada, with an Urdu as a heritage-language country context. Method: At...
Early assessment of reading abilities is important for ensuring long-term academic and career-related success. Pre-reading assessment tools can identify children at risk of future reading difficulties. However, most bilingual children do not have access to appropriate early reading assessments. This is due to the lack of language-appropriate assess...
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Literacy precursors are cognitive, linguistic, and oral-language skills that predict future reading skills in children as young as 4 years. Speech-language pathologists and educators utilize these precursors as assessment tools to identify children at risk for reading difficulties. Most current tools are developed based on monolinguals (pre...
Previous virtual care literature within the field of speech-language pathology has primarily focused on validating the virtual use of intervention programmes. There are fewer articles addressing the validity of conducting virtual assessments, particularly standardized assessment of oral language and literacy abilities in children. In addition, ther...
Previous virtual care literature within speech-language pathology has primarily focused on validating the virtual use of intervention programs. Fewer studies have addressed the validity of conducting virtual assessments, particularly standardized assessment of oral language and literacy abilities in children. Additionally, limited practical recomme...
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Previous virtual care literature within the field of speech-language pathology has primarily focused on validating the virtual use of intervention programmes. There are fewer articles addressing the validity of conducting virtual assessments, particularly standardized assessment of oral language and literacy abilities in children. In a...
Several literacy precursors have been identified in monolingual English-speaking
children; however, it is unclear whether the same precursors are also associated with literacy
development in bilingual children. Purpose: We examine whether in simultaneous bilingual
children: (i) code-related, oral-language, and domain-general cognitive literacy prec...
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Previous virtual care literature within the field of speech-language pathology has focused primarily on validating the virtual use of intervention programs. There are fewer articles addressing the validity of conducting standardized paediatric oral language and literacy assessments virtually. Additionally, there is a lack of practical re...
An important component of early reading intervention is effective literacy screening tools. Literacy precursor screening tools have been primarily developed for early identification and remediation of potential reading difficulties in monolingual Englishspeaking children, despite the significant proportion of bilingual children worldwide. This syst...
It is quite common in the Muslim faith for non-Arabic speakers to be able to convert written Arabic, especially Quranic Arabic, into a phonological code without significant semantic or syntactic knowledge. This is due to prior experience learning to read the Quran (a religious text written in Classical Arabic), from a very young age such as via enr...