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Rena Helms-Park (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Language Studies. She has demonstrated a dedicated career with a focus on psycholinguistics and childhood reading acquisition, exploring predictors of reading difficulty and success in languages such as Hindi-Urdu and Romanian. Her ongoing research, supported by SSHRC, includes significant projects investigating childhood trilingualism, with an emphasis on analyzing children’s narrative structures across languages. She has charted the progress of trilingual children facing reading difficulties within French immersion contexts. Additionally, Helms-Park investigates cognate processing among various languages, notably Romanian, Ukrainian, French, and English. Her contributions to the field reflect a long-standing commitment to understanding the complexities of language and literacy development in multilingual settings.
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