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Eva Kehayia

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Eva Kehayia
Contact Information
Address: 

3630 prom Sir-William-Osler, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1Y5

Phone: 
514-398-5867
Fax number: 
514-386-6360
Email address: 
eva.kehayia [at] mcgill.ca
Position: 
Associate Professor; Regular researcher, CRIR (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en Réadaptation) du Montréal métropolitain www.crir.ca
Office: 
D-37
Degree(s): 

BA (English Language and Linguistics) (Greece);ÌýMA, PhD (Linguistics / Neurolinguistics),Ìý¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University;ÌýPost-doctoral studies (Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics), University of Ottawa

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Teaching areas: 

POTH 614: Selected Topics in Rehabilitation Science

Current research: 

Dr Kehayia's research focuses on four areas: 1) the study of the representation, organization and access of language in individuals across different languages, 2) the study of language breakdown in acquired and degenerative language disorders, 3) the impact of language disorders on the individual's everyday life and participation,Ìý4) the creation of inclusive environments for individuals living with physical disabilities and language limitations.

Dr Kehayia leads the ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ branch of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership grant ‘Words in the World’ as well as a number of other initiatives addressing inclusion and participation of individuals with physical disabilities and language limitations in society. Her research is carried out in the Language and Communication Research Lab at the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital.Ìý

Areas of expertise: 

Stroke

Aging

Word processing

Mental Lexicon

Language disorders

Disability

Participation

Social Inclusion

Living LabsÌý

Selected publications: 

de Almeida, R.G., Mobayyen, F., Antal, C., Kehayia, E., Nair, V.P., & Schwartz, G. (2021). Category-specific verb-semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from static and dynamic action naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38(1), 1-26.

*Tsiamas, A., Jarema, G., & Kehayia, E. (2020). Does stress matter?: An investigation of Greek compound processing. The Mental Lexicon, 15(3), 485-507.

Han, Y., Segalowitz, N., Khalil, L., Kehayia, E., Turner, C., & Gatbonton, E., (2020). Do nurses use discourse markers differently when using their second language as opposed to their first language when interviewing patients? Canadian Modern Language Review, 76(2), 91-113.

Aubin, G., Elalouf, K., Alfaro, A.U., Johnson, A.P., Marinier, J.A., Kehayia, E., Gagné, J.P., Murphy, C., Pichora-Fuller, K.M., Phillips, N. and Wittich, W. (2020). Words on the brain: Correlations among measurements of vision, hearing and cognition in older adults referred for low vision rehabilitation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 61(7), 1569-1569.Ìý

Esmail, A., Poncet, F., Auger, C., Rochette, A., Dahan-Oliel, N., Labbé, D., Kehayia, E., Billebaud, C., de Guise, E., Lessard, I., Ducharme, I., Vermeersch, O. & Swaine, B. The role of clothing on participation of persons with a physical disability: A scoping review. (2020). Applied Ergonomics, 85, 103058.Ìý

Kehayia, E., Ahmed, S., Archambault, P., Fung, J., Lamontagne, A., Swaine, B., Kairy, D., Le Dorze, G., Lefebvre, H., Poldma, T., & Labbé, D. (2017). La santé, élément commun des politiques publiques? L’expérience canadienne. In Annales des Mines-Realites industrielles (No. 2, pp. 82-85). FFE.

Ahmed, S., Swaine, B., Milot, M., Gaudet, C., Poldma, T., Bartlett, G., Mazer, B., Le Dorze, G., Barbic, S., Rodriguez, A.M., Lefebvre, H., Archambault, P., Fung, J., Labbé, D., Lamontagne, A., &ÌýKehayia, E. (2017). Creating an inclusive mall environment with the PRECEDE-PROCEED model: a living lab case study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(21), 2198-2206.

*Azevedo, N., Atchley, R.A., Kehayia, E. (2015). Electrifying the lexical decision: Examining a P3 ERP component reflecting early lexical categorization. The Mental Lexicon, 10(3), 339-363.

*Azevedo, N., Kehayia, E., Atchley, R.A ., & Nair, V. P.(2015). Lexicality judgements in healthy aging and in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease: Effect of neighbourhood density. The Mental Lexicon, 10(2), 286-311.

*Hébert, M., Kehayia, E., Prelock, P., Wood-Dauphinee, S., & Snider L. (2014). Does occupational therapy play a role for communication in children with autism spectrum disorders? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16(6), 594-602.

Kehayia E., Swaine B., Longo C., Ahmed S., Archambault P., Fung, J., Kairy D., Lamontagne, A., Le Dorze, G., Lefebvre, H., Overbury, O., Poldma, T. (2014). Creating a rehabilitation living lab to optimize social participation and inclusion for persons with physical disabilities. ALTER-European Journal of Disability research/Journal européen de recherche sur le handicap, 8(3), 151-157.

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