@MolnarLab

Bilingual & Multilingual (BAM!) Development Lab @uoft @slpuoft|infancy➨adulthood|research⇆clinical practice|👀eye-tracking🧠EEG❤️heart-rate|PI:Dr. Monika Molnar

 University of Toronto
Joined November 2018
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📢 New publication alert! @MolnarLab Did you know your first language can boost reading in your second? 📚 Our new study shows how Urdu skills in kindergarten help predict English reading in Grade 1 for children in 🇵🇰 & 🇨🇦.
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New Tool! w/@MolnarLab Excited to share U-PASS, a linguistically responsive, pre-reading assessment tool for Urdu-English bilingual children. We demonstrated concurrent validity across Canada and Pakistan. A promising step toward equitable early identification! #EarlyLiteracy
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New OA paper! Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4k5iivR
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📚 Most reading research focuses on monolinguals & Latin scripts—but what about biscriptal bilinguals? Our longitudinal study of Urdu-English readers in 🇵🇰 & 🇨🇦 shows phonological awareness & RAN matter across scripts & orthographic depths 👇
Insiya Bhalloo, PhD@InsiyaBhalloo24 Jun 2025
Excited to share our latest paper on Urdu-English #bilinguals in Pakistan and Canada! 🇵🇰🇨🇦 Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s11145-025-1… @MolnarLab
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🚨 This Thursday (June 19)! Join us from anywhere in the world for a virtual event featuring two amazing keynote speakers — Dr. Alissa Ferry and Dr. Sonya Bird — as they explore the fascinating world of language development. 🌍🧠 Tap for details 👇
Emily Wood@ekw_slp20 May 2025
2 keynote speakers for @MolnarLab's #GraduateLanguageResearchDay announced! 1️⃣ Dr. Elissa Ferry 2️⃣ Dr. Sonya Bird Details and registration below! ⬇️⬇️ register.oxfordabstracts.com… #GLRD
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Still not too late to register 😎 #GLRD
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🔧Giving resourcesdatabase.com a much-needed summer upgrade! Started as a GitHub wiki, now a #Quarto site. Only 50% done, but it's been fun revisiting 6 yrs' worth of #rstats resources. I do hope it helps someone out there! #openscience #AcademicTwitter #datascience #DataViz
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She spoke for 3 minutes—and moved hearts across the province. @ekw_slp won the #3MT People's Choice Award at the provincial level, reminding us all of the power of research.😎Thank u @SSHRC_CRSH for funding this important work. @uoftmedicine @UofT @UofTNews @RSIUofT @UofT_SLP
Emily Wood@ekw_slp2 Jun 2025
It was a huge honour to represent the @UofT at the Ontario #3MT three minute thesis provincial competition this year, and an even bigger honour to win Participant's Choice! Thank you @MolnarLab, judges and CGPD! Congratulations to all finalists and winners!
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For the budget-conscious cognitive scientist: your participant's heart already knows what their brain is doing. Heart rate reveals spoken language processing secrets that behavior can't. No expensive scanners required ❤️ authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Congratulations @baowenfu and thank you @NSERC_CRSNG for funding this project!
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2 keynote speakers for @MolnarLab's #GraduateLanguageResearchDay announced! 1️⃣ Dr. Elissa Ferry 2️⃣ Dr. Sonya Bird Details and registration below! ⬇️⬇️ register.oxfordabstracts.com… #GLRD
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📣Yearly @MolnarLab Workshop Series 📚What: Bilingual literacy ⏰When: Friday May 30th 2:00–5:00 PM 📍Where: 500 University Ave, Toronto/Hybrid Zoom 🙇Who: Dr. Becky Chen (OISE) Dr. Guofang Li (UBC) Besy Karantzoulis (SLP) 💸Cost: Free 📝How to register: eventbrite.ca/e/bilingual-li…

Bilingual Literacy Development

Join our workshop to delve into bilingual literacy development, featuring insights from our expert panel of researchers and clinicians.

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📢 Calling all #SLPs, #educators & researchers! Join us for a free hybrid workshop and panel on #bilingual literacy development 📚🌍 🗓️ May 30 | 2–5PM EDT 📍 Hybrid: 500 University Ave, Toronto/Zoom 🔗 RSVP: eventbrite.ca/e/bilingual-li…
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📢 Calling all language lovers! 🎉Join us for Graduate Language Research Day 2025 🗓 Date: June 19, 2025 📍 Where: Online 💵 Cost: Free 💡Grad students -submit abstracts by May 1 🔗Undergrads -register to attend! #LanguageResearch #GradConference #UofT #Bilingualism @MolnarLab
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📢 JOB opportunity 📢The Dept. of Speech-Language Pathology at @uoftmedicine @UofT invites applications for a tenure-track position in the area(s) of speech, language and/or swallowing science: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto…

Assistant Professor - Tenure Stream, Speech-Language Pathology

Assistant Professor - Tenure Stream, Speech-Language Pathology

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Happily presented DOLLi: A dynamic omni-language literacy screener last week at Duolingo Research Day as a grant recipient. At @MolnarLab we strive to make fairer, more accurate pre-reading screeners for multilinguals. 🌍Thanks Duolingo for supporting my PhD and for hosting us!🦉
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New Preprint! *Who are the Speech-Language Pathologists of the Future?* 👩‍🦱💬👨‍🦰 We report results of a national demographic survey of SLP students 🗨️⚧️🇨🇦 Do we represent the populations we serve in terms of sex, gender, language, culture, race and SES? ⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.17.2…
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Over 50% of the 🌎is bilingual! Yet - most #bilingual children do not have access to appropriate early reading assessments - due to limited heritage-language tools! 📚👧🏽🧒🏾 Our Urdu Phonological Tele-Assessment Tool (U-PASS) addresses this global #accessibility issue @MolnarLab
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📢The @MolnarLab is looking for Canadian #healthcare sector clinicians working with bi/multilingual pediatric clients for a study on clinician perspectives📢 Visit link to sign up⬇️ redcap.utoronto.ca/surveys/?… 😀Reposts & shares greatly appreciated!🙏
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Activation patterns in bilingual children align with those of bilingual adult studies osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jk…
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