Lana Kharabi-Yamato, Ph.D.

Biography

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Publications

• Zhang, J., Hou, Z., Kharabi-Yamato, L, Winton, S., Curry Ilure, A., Lee, G., Zhang, H., & Nam, R (2024). Morpho-phonemic Analysis Boosts Orthographic and Semantic Word Learning for Spanish-English Bilinguals. Journal of Research in Reading 
• Araceli Enriquez-Andrade, Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui, Jie Zhang, Lana KharabiYamato, Jackie Eunjung Relyea & Sissy S. Wong (2024): Teachers’ language ideologies and practices on the use of Spanish in science classrooms, Language and Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2024.2362912
• Gan, Y. Zhang, J., Kharabi-Yamato, L., Su, Y., Zhang, J., Jiang, Y., Hui, Y., & Li, H. (2022). The Unique Predictive Value of Dynamic Assessment of Character Decoding in Reading Development of Chinese Children from Grades 1 to 2. Scientific Studies of Reading, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2022.2143271
• Zhang, J., Zhang, H., Relyea, J. E., Wui, M. G. L., Yan, Y., Nam, R., Enriquez, A., & Kharabi-Yamato, L. (2022). Orthographic facilitation in upper elementary students: does attention to morphology of complex words enhance the effects? Annals of Dyslexia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-022-00270-4

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Courses (Current Academic Year)

• Assessment in Special Education 
• Diagnostic Instruction for Learners with Special Needs 
• Instruction to Special Populations 
• Survey of Exceptionalities

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Research Projects

Dr. Lana Kharabi-Yamato's research interests include students' experiences of disability in schools including invisible disabilities, collaboration between general education and special education teachers, as well as dyslexia and inclusive strategies for teaching language arts to students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

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