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University of Toronto
Insiya Bhalloo is a first year PhD student at the Bilingual and Multilingual Development lab, University of Toronto (Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute), under supervision of Dr. Monika Molnar. Insiya's research focuses on establishing age-, linguistically-, and culturally-appropriate literacy screening tools to facilitate early identification and intervention of reading difficulties in Urdu-English bilingual children across Canada and Pakistan. Her PhD involves establishing predictive validity of a novel Urdu phonological awareness tele-screening tool.
Financial Disclosure:
•Yes, Grant Funds
•Grant Funds: This study has been partially funded by the University of Toronto’s COVID-19 Student Engagement Award (RIS Human Protocol Number: 38608), from 2020 - 2021. No conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, are declared by the authors or members of the guideline development group.
Non-financial Disclosures:
•Yes, Other nonfinancial relationship (Please specify other)
•Working relationship: I have a continued professional working relationship with the research assistants (who were part of the lab team at the University of Toronto) interviewed in the process of developing these guidelines, from 2019 to present.
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