Peer-Reviewed Publications

Bhalloo, I., & Molnar, M. (2021). Precursors of bilingual literacy development: A systematic review. Scientific Studies of Reading. [Manuscript Submitted]. 


Wood, E., Bhalloo, I., McCaig, B., Feraru, C., & Molnar, M. (2020). Use of standardized oral language and literacy assessments in telepractice: Clinical and research guidelines for speech-language pathologists. Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. [Manuscript Submitted]. 


Bhalloo, I., Leung, K.I., & Molnar, M. (2020). Well-established monolingual literacy predictors in bilinguals. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2020), Greece. [Conference Paper]. 


Bhalloo, I (2018). ‘Because’ Linguistics: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Contemporary Uses of the Novel ‘Because Preposition’ in Canadian, as Opposed to Pakistani, Contexts. Language in India, 18(3): 1-16.


Bhalloo, I., & Leung, K.I. (2020). Clinical innovation or buzzword? Exploring telerehab in Speech-Language Pathology and mindfulness therapy. rehabINK. 

Translations

Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H.K., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2007). The language experience and proficiency questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals. (I. Bhalloo, & F. Somani, Trans.). Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 50(4), 940-967. [Urdu translation]. 

Presentations & Conferences

Bhalloo, I., & Molnar, M. (2021). Predictors of literacy development in Urdu-English bilingual Canadian children. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB’13), University of Warsaw, Poland. [Conference Paper and Oral Presentation].


Bhalloo, I., & Molnar, M. (2021). Developing language-specific screening tools: Assessing phonological awareness skills in Urdu-English bilingual children. Theory to Therapy (TtoT) Conference, Canada, June 2021. [Oral Presentation].


Bhalloo, I., Leung, K.I., & Molnar, M. (2021). Early predictors of future literacy development in Urdu-English bilingual children. RSI Research Day, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, May 2021. [Poster Presentation].


Bhalloo, I., Leung, K.I., & Molnar, M. (2020). Well-established monolingual literacy predictors in bilinguals. ExLing 2020: 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, Greece, October 2020. [Oral Presentation, Systematic Literature Review]. 


Bhalloo, I., Leung, K.I., & Molnar, M. (2020). Precursors of bilingual literacy development: A systematic review. RSI Research Day, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, June 2020. [Poster Presentation, Systematic Literature Review]. 


Bhalloo, I., & Molnar, M. (2020). Predictors of literacy development in Urdu-English bilingual Canadian children. Theory to Therapy (TtoT) Conference, Canada, June 2020. [Oral Presentation]. 


Parthasarathy, P., Bhalloo, I., & Molnar, M. (2019). Determining the effects of bilingualism on domains of cognition from infancy to childhood. Bachelor of Health Sciences Poster Day, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, March 2019. [Poster Presentation, Systematic Literature Review]. 

Research Study: Investigating the Influences of Long-Term, as Compared to Short-Term, Phonological Memory on the Word Recall Abilities of Arabic Readers vs. Arabic Native Speakers.

 September 2018              Invited, Arabic Applied Linguistics Conference, University of Michigan, USA

 July 2018                             Attendee, Arabic Linguistics Forum, SOAS University of London, UK  (UTSC Academic Travel Fund recipient)         

 July 2018                             Invited, Free Linguistics Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

 June 2018                           Invited, 2018 Seoul International Conference on Phonology, South Korea

 April 2018                           Attendee, North-West Linguistics Conference 2018, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia                                

                                                    (UTSC Academic Travel Fund recipient)

 March 2018                       Presenter, 11th Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCON’18), University of Toronto

 March 2018                       Presenter, Scarborough Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (SULC), University of Toronto Scarborough