Associate Professor of Psychology
About
Dr. Ioulia Kovelman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Kovelman focuses on child language and literacy development, especially in bilingual children. As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Kovelman studies children’s language, literacy, and brain development using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNRS). These studies include experiments with typically developing readers and at-risk learners such as those with dyslexia and developmental language disorders (DLD). In her current research, Dr. Kovelman focuses on bilingual children learning to speak and read in typologically distinct languages: Spanish, English, and Chinese. Through this work, she addresses the universal, language-specific, and bilingual influences on child reading development and dyslexia.
To learn more about Dr. Kovelman’s work, please visit the Language & Literacy Lab website and her NCBI bibliography.
