Full Professor, Department of Learning Disabilities
Extension: 2900
Email: dshare@construct.haifa.ac.il
Research Interests: Reading and spelling development; Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Education:
- B.Sc.(Hons.) in Psychology, University of N.S.W., Sydney, Australia.
- Ph.D. in Psychology and Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
- Diploma of Education, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Neil Hamilton Fairley Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Courses taught this year:
- Introduction to the Psychology of Reading and Reading disabilities
- Thesis Seminar
- Early Literacy Development
- Research Seminar: Current Topics in Reading Research
Recent Publications:
Share, D.L. (1999). Phonological recoding and orthographic learning: A direct test of the self-teaching hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 72, 95-129.
Share, D.L., Gur, T. (1999). How reading begins: A study of preschoolers’ print identification strategies. Cognition and Instruction, 17, 177-213. (Tali Gur’s MA thesis)
Lamm, O., Share, D.L., Shatil, E., & Epstein, R. (1999). Kindergarten dichotic listening as a predictor of first-grade reading achievement. Dyslexia, 5, 138-154.
Shatil, E., Share, D.L., & Levin, I. (2000). On the contribution of kindergarten writing to Grade 1 literacy: A longitudinal study in Hebrew. Applied Psycholinguistics, 28, 1-25. (Evelyn Shatil’s PhD thesis)
Share, D.L., Jorm, A. F., Maclean, R., & Matthews, R. (2002). Auditory temporal processing and specific reading disability. Reading and Writing, 15, 151-178.
Cunningham, A., E., Perry, K.E., Stanovich, K. E., & Share, D. L. (2002).
Orthographic learning during reading: Examining the role of self-teaching. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 82, 185-199
Share, D. L., & Silva, P. A. (2003). Gender bias in IQ-discrepancy and post-discrepancy definitions of reading disability. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 36, 4-14.
Shatil, E., & Share, D. L. (2003). Cognitive antecedents of early Hebrew reading ability: A test of the cognitive modularity hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 86, 1-31
Abu-Rabia, S., Share, D. L., & Mansour, M. S. (2003). Word recognition and basic cognitive abilities among reading-disabled and normal readers in Arabic. Reading and Writing, 16, 423-442.
Share, D. L., & Leikin, M. (2004). Language impairment at school entry and later reading disability: Connections at lexical and supra-lexical levels of reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8, 87-110.
Share, D. L. (2004). Orthographic learning at a glance: On the time course and developmental onset of self-teaching. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 87, 267-298.
Share, D. L. (2004). Knowing letter names and learning letter sounds: A causal connection. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 88, 213-233
Share, D.L. & Shalev, C. (2004). Self-teaching in normal and disabled readers. Reading and Writing, 17, 1-31
Leikin, M., Share, D. L., & Schwartz, M. (2005). Difficulties of L2 Hebrew reading in Russian-speaking second graders. Reading and Writing, 18, 455-472.
Share D. L., & Blum, P. (2005). Syllable splitting among literate and pre-literate Hebrew-speakers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92, 182-202.
Schwartz, M., Leikin, M., & Share, D. L. (2005). Bi-literate bilingualism versus monoliterate bilingualism: A longitudinal study of reading acquisition in Hebrew (L2) among Russian-speaking (L1) children. Written Language and Literacy, 8, 179-207.
de Jong, P. F., & Share, D. L. (2007). Orthographic learning during silent and oral reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 11, 55-71.
Schwartz, M., Geva, E., Leikin, M. & Share, D. L. (2007). Learning to Read in English as L3: The Cross-linguistic Transfer of Phonological Processing Skills. Written Language and Literacy, 10, 25-52.
Shahar-Yames, D., & Share, D. L. (2008). Spelling as a self-teaching mechanism. Journal of Research in Reading, 31, 22-39.(This paper was nominated for the UKLA(United Kingdom Literacy Association)/Blackwell Research in Literacy Education Award 2008.)
Share, D. L. (2008). On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: The perils of over-reliance on an “outlier” orthography. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 584-616.
*C54 Share, D. L. (2008). Orthographic learning, phonology and the self-teaching hypothesis. In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 36, (pp. 31-82). Amsterdam: Elsevier
Schwartz, M., Share, D. L., & Leikin, M., & Kozminsky, E. (2008). On the benefits of biliteracy: Just a head start or specific orthographic insights? Reading and Writing, 21, 905-927.
Bekebrede, J., I., van der Leij, A., & Share, D. L. (2009). Dutch dyslexic adolescents: The phonological core variable orthographic difference model. Reading and Writing, 22,133-165.
Leikin, M. Schwartz, M., & Share, D. L. (in press). General and Specific Benefits of Bi-literate Bilingualism: A Russian-Hebrew Study of Beginning Literacy. Reading and Writing.
Bekebrede, J. I., van der Leij, A., Plakas, A., & Share, D. L. (in press). Phonological core deficits and variable orthographic differences in Dutch adult dyslexics. Scientific Studies of Reading.
ARTICLES OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Share, D.L., & Levin, I. (1999). Learning to read and write in Hebrew. In M Harris, and G. Hatano (Eds.), Learning to read and write, (pp.89-111), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Share, D. L. (2003). Dyslexia in Hebrew. In N. Goulandris (Ed.), Dyslexia in different languages: Cross-linguistic comparisons, (pp.208-234). London: Whurr.
Share, D. L., & Leikin, M. (2003). Developmental dyslexia in the Hebrew language. In J. Smythe (Ed.), International book of dyslexia, (pp.113-121). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
Share, D. (in press) The role of phonology in reading acquisition: The self-teaching hypothesis. Chapter to appear in edited volume honoring the career of Donald Shankweiler. Braze, D., Fowler, C., & Brady, S. Taylor and Francis.
Gur, T., & Share, D. L. (in press). A case study of dyslexia in Hebrew. To appear in P. Anderson, (Ed.). International Case Studies of Dyslexia.
Share, D. L. (in press). Reading in different scripts. To appear in P. T. Daniels (Ed.). The World’s Writing Systems (Revised Edition). Oxford University Press.
