Senior Lecturer, Department of Special Education, Department of Learning Disabilities
Email: katzirta@gmail.com
Sabbatical
Areas of Interest: Reading comprehension; Fluency; Subtypes of RD in Hebrew; Diacritic marks and reading disabilities; Vocabulary development in children.
Recent Publications:
Feldman, D.H., & Katzir, T. (1998) Natural talents: An argument for the extremes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 415.
Miller L., Katzir, T., Meltzer, L., & Houser, R. (2001). Perceptions of academic performance, strategy use and academic difficulties of high and low achieving students with learning disabilities. Thalamus, Fall, 20-33.
Meltzer, L., Katzir, T., Miller, L., & Roditi, B. (2001). The impact of effort and strategy use on academic performance: Students and teacher perceptions. Learning Disabilities Quarterly, 24, 85-105.
Wolf, M. & Katzir, T. (2001). Reading fluency and its intervention. Scientific Studies of Reading, 5, 211-239.
Paré-Blagoev, E.J., Cestnick, L., Rose, L.T., Clark, J., Misra,M., Katzir-Cohen, T., Hook, P., Jones, S.D., Galaburda, A., Marantz, A., & Poldrack, R.A. (2002). The neural basis of phonological awareness in normal-reading children examined using fMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Proceedings.
Katzir, T., Breznitz, A., Shaul, S., & Wolf, M. (2004). Universal and the unique: A cross-linguistic investigation of reading and reading fluency in Hebrew-and English-speaking children with dyslexia. Journal of Reading and Writing, 17 (7-8) 739-768.
Misra, M., Katzir, T., Wolf, M., & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Neural systems for rapid automatized naming (RAN) in skilled readers: Unraveling the puzzle of the RAN-reading relationship. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8(3), 241-156.
Meltzer, L., Katzir, T., Miller, L., & Roditi, B. (2004). Academic self-perceptions, effort, and strategy use in students with learning disabilities: Changes over time. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 19(2), 99-108.
Katzir, T., Misra, M., & Poldrack, R. (2005). Imaging phonology without print: Assessing the neural correlates of phonemic awareness using fMRI. Neuroimage, 27 106-115.
Katzir, T., Kim., Y., Wolf, M., O’Brien, Kennedy, B., Lovett, M., & Morris, R. (2006) . Reading Fluency: The Whole Is More than the Parts. Annals of Dyslexia, 56(1) 51-83.
Katzir, T., Kim, Y., Wolf, M., Kennedy, B., Morris, R., Lovett, M. (2006), The relationship of spelling recognition, RAN and Phonological awareness to older poor readers and younger reading-matched control. Journal of Reading and Writing, 19 (8) 845-872
Katzir, T., & Pare-Balagov, E. J. (2006). Bridging neuroscience and education: the case of reading. Educational Psychologist, 41(6), 53-74
Pierce, M.E., Katzir, T., Wolf, M., & Noam, G. (2007). Clusters of Second and Third Grade Dysfluent Urban Readers. Journal of Reading and Writingת 20(9), 885-907
Katzir, T., Morris, R., Lovett, M., Wolf, M. (2008) Multiple pathways to dysfluent reading in subtypes of dyslexia. Journal of Learning Disabilities 41(1), 47-66.
Chang., B., * Katzir, T.,* Corriveua, K., Brazilai, M., Liu, T., Aslpop., Walsh., C. (2007) A structural basis for reading fluency: Cortico-cortical fiber tract disruptions are associated with reading impairment in a neuronal migration disorder, Neurology, 69, 2154-2166.
Katzir, T. (2009) How research in the cognitive neuroscience sheds lights on subtypes of children with dyslexia: Implications for teachers. Cortex, 45(4) 558-559.
Katzir, T. Lesaux, N., & Kim Y. (2009) The role of reading self-concept and home literacy practices in fourth grade reading comprehension. Reading and Writing, 22(3), 261-276.
López-Escribano, C., & Katzir, T. (2008) Are Phonological Processes Separate from the Processes Underlying Naming Speed in a shallow orthography. Education and Psychology, 16, 6(3) p. 641-666.
Christodoulou, J.A., Daley, S.G., & Katzir, T. (2009) Researching the Practice, Practicing the Research, and Promoting Responsible Policy: Usable Knowledge in Mind, Brain, and Education. Mind Brain and Education 3(2) p 65-67.
Christodoulou, J.A., Daley, S.G., & Katzir, T. (2009) Editors of Special Section on Usable Knowledge Mind Brain and Education Issue 3(2);
Christodoulou, J.A., Daley, S.G., & Katzir, T. (2009) Editors of Special Section on Usable Knowledge Mind Brain and Education Issue 3(3).
*Walker LM, Katzir T, Liu T, Ly J, Corriveau K, Barzillai M, Chu F, O’Connor MG, Hackney DB, Chang BS (2009). Gray matter volumes and cognitive ability in the epileptogenic brain malformation of periventricular nodular heterotopia. Epilepsy Behavior 15(4), 456-460.
Pierce, M., Katzir, T., Wolf, M., & Gil., N. (2010). Examining the Construct of Reading Among Dysfluent Urban Children: A Factor Analysis Approach.” Journal of Literacy Research 42(2): 124 – 158.
Schwarts M. & Katzir, T. Vocabulary development in bilingual children (in press, Reading and Writing)
Nuñez, S.C., Dapretto, M., Katzir, T., Starr, A., Bramen, J., Kan, E., Bookheimer, S.Y., Sowell, E.R. . fMRI of Syntactic processing in typically developing children: Structural correlates in the inferior frontal gyrus.( in press , Journal of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Shani, M, Bar-On Amalia, & Katzir, T. Learning to read the shallow-deep dual Hebrew script: The long and winding road (in press, Reading and Writing)
Kapranski, R.& Katzir, T. Confidence Ratings Test or Trait Driven: Individual Differences among Good and Poor Comprehenders in Fourth Grade ( in press, Reading Psychology)
