John Kirby

Professor, Graduate Faculty (Cross-Appointed to Psychology)

 

  

Research Interests Cognitive processes in reading Learning disabilities Spatial cognition Educational psychology Recent Publications Kirby, J. R. (in press). Not learning to read: Diversity among children with reading difficulties. In J. Lupart (Ed.), Issues of Diversity and Schooling. Fitzhenry & Whiteside.   Desrochers, A., Kirby, J. R., & Thompson, G. (in press). Le développement de la lecture orale chez l’enfant. Canadian Psychology.   Kirby, J. R. & Hogan, B. (in press). Family literacy environment and early literacy development. Exceptionality Education Canada.

Kirby, J. R. & Savage, R. S. (in press). Can the Simple View deal with the complexities of reading? Literacy.

Kirby, J. R., Desrochers, A., Roth, L., & Lai, S. S. Y. (in press). Longitudinal predictors of word reading development. Canadian Psychology.

Roman, A. A., Kirby, J. R., Parrila, R., Wade-Woolley, L. & Deacon, S. H. (in press). Towards a comprehensive view of the skills involved in word reading in Grades 4, 6, and 8. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Deacon, S. H., Parrila, R. & Kirby, J. R. (in press). A review of the evidence on morphological processing in dyslexics and poor readers: A strength or weakness? To appear in F. Manis, A. Fawcett, G. Reid, & L. Siegel (Eds.), Dyslexia Handbook. Sage.

Georgiou, G. K., Parrila, R., Kirby, J. R., & Stephenson, K. (in press). Development of rapid naming components and their relationship with phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, speed of processing, and reading. Scientific Studies of Reading.

Kemp, N., Parrila, R. K. & Kirby, J. R. (in press). Phonological and orthographic spelling in high-functioning adult dyslexics. Dyslexia.

Contact Information

Room: A220

Phone: 613-533-6000 x 77231

Email: kirbyj@queensu.ca

Web: http://post.queensu.ca/~kirbyj