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Ioulia Kovelman is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on child language and literacy development, particularly among bilingual children. As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, Kovelman utilizes functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNRS) to study the interplay between children's language, literacy, and brain development. Her studies explore a range of subjects including typically developing readers, at-risk learners, dyslexia, and developmental language disorders (DLD). Currently, her research emphasizes the development of bilingual children who are learning to speak and read in typologically distinct languages such as Spanish, English, and Chinese. Kovelman's work addresses both universal and language-specific factors that influence child reading development, especially in the context of dyslexia. Her contributions to the field have been recognized through various awards, including the Amy L. Kirk L. Wolfe Prize and the John Dewey Award.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science