Curriculum Vitae. 1. Personal Data

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1 Curriculum Vitae 1. Personal Data Full Name: Lénia Sofia de Almeida Carvalhais Name under publications: Lénia Carvalhais Date of Birth: 21 October of 1982 Nationality: Portuguese Work address: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen Porto lenia@fpce.up.pt 2. Academic Degree Year: 2010 Degree: PhD Final Grade: Unanimously approved Degree granting Institution: University of Aveiro School/ College/Campus: Department of Education Thesis title: Construction of a battery of tests to assess developmental dyslexia in Portuguese children aged between 7 and 12 years old Supervisor: Carlos Fernandes da Silva, Full Professor, University of Aveiro Co-supervisor: Tim Miles, Professor Emeritus, Bangor University, Wales, UK Scientific Area: Educational Sciences Year: 2005 Degree: Licenciatura Final Grade: 17 (in 20) Degree granting Institution: University of Aveiro School/ College/Campus: Department of Education and Department of Languages and Cultures Thesis title: N/A Supervisor: N/A Co-supervisor: N/A Scientific Area: Teacher training in Portuguese, Latin and Greek languages 3. Previous Activities and Current Status May ( ): Postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Porto, Portugal, supervised by Professor São Luís Castro and supported by a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The research project is concerned with precursors to early literacy, more specifically with spelling processes.

2 February 2012 July 2012: Invited professor at the Universidade Lusíada, Porto. September 2010 August 2011: Invited professor (30%) at the Department of Education, University of Aveiro. February 2011 July 2011: Invited professor at the Universidade Lusíada, Porto. January 2006 December 2009: Doctoral fellowship at the Department of Education, University of Aveiro, supervised by Professor Carlos Fernandes da Silva and supported by a grant from the FCT (FCT/SFRH/24860/2005). September 2004 August 2005: Educational internship in the Escola Secundário de Oliveira do Bairro. 4. Present Research Interest Reading and spelling abilities; Portuguese orthography and morphology; reading and spelling assessment and intervention; education; specific learning difficulties. - Other Professional interest/activities Internship with the Professor Ulla Richardson, Agora Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, July 2013, supported by FCT. Editor of the online journal Revista Portuguesa de Dificuldades de Aprendizagem (1 st Edition, March 2012: ). Member of the editorial board (2012). Avaliação neuropsicológica cognitiva: linguagem oral. (II vol.). Eds. Alessandra Seabra & Natália Dias, São Paulo, Memnon. Internship with Professor Sylvia Defior, University of Granada, Spain, December 2010, with the support from of COST IS0703 fellowship. Internship with Professor Maria de Lourdes Serpa, director, working with special education program, TLL, School of Education, Lesley University, Boston, USA and with Teresa Citro, executive director of center of Learning Disabilities Worldwide, Massachusetts, Boston, U.S.A, November 2008, supported by a FCT grant. Internship with Professor Emeritus Tim Miles, from University of Wales, Bangor, March 2008, supported by FCT. Internship with the professor Alessandra Gotuzo Seabra Capovilla, from Universidade de S. Francisco, São Paulo, Brasil, September 2006 and supported by FCT. 5. Experience as Scientific Adviser Co-supervison of the doctoral thesis (September 2013) titled As NEE no Ensino Básico- Caso específico da dislexia [Especial Education Needs: the specific case of dyslexia] presented by Ilda Pestana at the Departament of Education, University of Aveiro. This thesis was supervised by the Professor Carlos Fernandes da Silva and it was unanimously approved.

3 Supervision of the master thesis in Special Education (July 2012), in the Department of Education, University of Aveiro, presented by Esther del Castillo and approved with the final classification of 19 (in 20). Supervision of the master thesis in Special Education (July, 2012), in the Department of Education, University of Aveiro, presented by Teresa Batista and approved with the final classification of 19 (in 20). 6. Participation in Projects ( ): Collaboration in the project I&D DAAR (Desenvolver, Automatizar e Autorregular os Processos Cognitivos na Composição Escrita) supported by FCT (PTDC/PSI-PCO/110708/2009). The collaboration was established in the study 2: Spelling and handwriting in second graders. September 2011 September 2013: Grundtvig Mobilities project DYSSpeLD, Roadmap for Teacher and Adult Learner Training ( supported by the Portuguese National Agency for Lifelong Learning ( ): Member of the project I&D 2010 (25%), supported by FCT Matutinidade- Vespertinidade em crianças, hora do dia e o seu impacto em medidas estandardizadas de avaliação de dificuldades de leitura e escrita (IP: Prof. Ana Allen Gomes, University of Aveiro). 7. Published Works 7.1 PhD thesis Carvalhais, L. (2010). Construção de Instrumentos de Avaliação da Dislexia de Desenvolvimento [Construction of a Battery of Tests to Assess Developmental Dyslexia]. Tese de Doutoramento não publicada, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. 7.2 Books chapter Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C. (2009). Construção da Bateria de Avaliação da Dislexia de Desenvolvimento para crianças portuguesas dos 7 anos 12 anos. [Construction of a Battery of Tests to Assess Developmental Dyslexia in Portuguese Children between 7 and 12 years old.] In J.M.Montiel & F.C.Capovilla (Eds.), Atualização em Transtornos de Aprendizagem. São Paulo, SP: Artes Médicas. 7.3 Peer-review articles Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C.F. (2010). Developmental Dyslexia: Perspectives on Teacher Training and Learning Disabilities in Portugal. Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 8(2), pp Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C.F. (2009). How to assess developmental dyslexia?. The International Journal of Learning, 16 (10), pp Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C.F. (2009). Development of Reading Skills in a sample of portuguese normal readers and dyslexic children. L1- Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 9, (4), pp

4 Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C.F. (2007). Dyslexia Assessment in Portugal: Proposal of a New Instrument. Encontro: Revista de Psicologia, 11, (16), pp Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C.F. (2007). Avaliação da Consciência Fonológica numa amostra de crianças disléxicas e normoléxicas portuguesas. Encontro: Revista de Psicologia, 11, (15), pp Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C.F. (2007). Consequências sociais e emocionais da dislexia de desenvolvimento. Psicologia Escolar e Educacional, 2, (1), pp Proceedings Carvalhais, L. (2011). Treino de consciência fonológica em crianças com dificuldades de aprendizagem. Estratégias para uma Aprendizagem com Sucesso, 2 (1), 1-9. Pestana, I., Carvalhais, C., & Silva, C. (2009). Práticas Inclusivas dos professores do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e a sua Formação para integração dos alunos com N.E.E. In Silva, B., Almeida, L., Lozano, A., & Uzquiano, M. (Eds.) Livro de Actas do X Congresso Internacional Galego-Português de Psicopedagogia, Universidade do Minho (CIED), pp (ISBN ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C (2008). Avaliação Neuropsicológica e Avaliação da Dislexia de Desenvolvimento. In A. P. Noronha, C. Machado, L. Almeida, M. Gonçalves & V. Ramalho (Eds.), Actas da XIII conferência internacional de avaliação psicológica: Formas e contextos. Braga: Psiquilíbrios Edições (ISBN: ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C (2008). Construção da Bateria de Avaliação da Dislexia de Desenvolvimento: avaliação da leitura, escrita e memória de longo prazo. In A. P. Noronha, C. Machado, L. Almeida, M. Gonçalves, & V. Ramalho (Eds.), Actas da XIII conferência internacional de avaliação psicológica: Formas e contextos. Braga: Psiquilíbrios Edições (ISBN: ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C (2008). Consequências sociais e emocionais da dislexia de desenvolvimento: o caso do João. In González-Pienda, J., Pérez, J., (Eds.) Actas de Psicología y Educación, Un Lugar de Encuentro, Universidad de Oviedo, pp (ISBN: ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C (2008). Formação docente na área das dificuldades de aprendizagem: realidade ou utopia. In Ministério de Educacion Superior y las Universidades de la República de Cuba (Eds.), Memorias Universidad 2008, VI Congreso Internacional de Educacion Superior, pp (ISBN: ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C (2008). Avaliação da Leitura: estudo comparativo em crianças dos 8 aos 12 anos com e sem diagnóstico de Dislexia de Desenvolvimento. In I. Cardoso, E. Martins, Z. Paiva (Eds.). Actas Da Investigação à Prática: interacções e debates, pp (ISBN: ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C (2007). Insucesso Escolar e Dislexia de Desenvolvimento: qual a relação?. in Barca, A., Peralbo, M., Porto, A., Duarte da Silva, B. e Almeida, L.

5 (Eds.). Actas do IX Congreso Internacional Galego-portugués de Psicopedagoxía, Universidade da Corunha, pp (ISSN: ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C (2007). Integração dos Alunos Disléxicos no Ensino Superior. In A. Pedro, A. Martins, e C. Fernandes (Eds.). Actas do Congresso Educação e Democracia: representações sociais, práticas educativas e cidadania. Universidade de Aveiro, pp (ISBN ). Carvalhais, L., & Silva, C., (2007). Assessoria externa no domínio da dislexia. In J. Costa, A. Neto-Mendes, e A.Ventura, (Eds.) A assessoria na educação em debate. Universidade de Aveiro, pp (ISBN ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C. (2006). Avaliação Psicológica da Dislexia de Desenvolvimento: construção da Bateria de Avaliação da Dislexia de Desenvolvimento. In Actas do VI Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, pp (ISBN ). Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C. (2006). Avaliação da Dislexia em Contexto Educacional. In Anais do XI Congresso Sul-Brasileiro da Qualidade na Educação (CDD 370), pp Carvalhais, L. & Silva, C. (2006). Dislexia: modelos de leitura, tipologia, avaliação e intervenção. In Actas do Simpósio Internacional de Activação e Desenvolvimento Psicológico, pp (ISBN ). 8. Communication in Scientific Meetings 8.1 Oral Presentations Lénia Carvalhais, Andreia Fonseca, Andreia Neto, João Almeida, Joana Lopes, Tânia Pedro (September, 2011). Measuring anxiety and assertiveness in youth with dyslexia: an exploratory study with a Portuguese sample. Paper session presented at the meeting of 1 st Annual European Congress on Learning Disabilities, Zurique. Lénia Carvalhais (June, 2011). Assessment of spelling abilities in a sample of Portuguese children. Paper session presented at the meeting of 8 th International Conference of British Dyslexia Association, Harrogate, UK. Lénia Carvalhais (October, 2009). Teacher training and learning disabilities in Portugal. Paper session presented at the meeting of 18 th Annual World Congress on Learning Disabilities Increasing Global Awareness and Understanding of Learning Disabilities through Instruction and Best Practices, Boston. Lénia Carvalhais, Ilda Pestana e Carlos Fernandes da Silva (September, 2009). Práticas inclusivas dos professores do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e a sua formação para integração dos alunos com N.E.E. Paper session presented presented at the meeting of X Congresso Internacional Galego-Português de Psicopedagogia, Universidade do Minho.

6 Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (July, 2009). How to assess dyslexia? Assessing Portuguese normal readers and dyslexic children. Paper session presented at the meeting of 16 th International Conference on Learning, University of Barcelona. Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (April, 2008). Implicações da dislexia de desenvolvimento na aprendizagem da leitura e escrita. Paper session presented at the meeting V Congreso Internacional de Psicología y Educación, Universidad de Oviedo. Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (February, 2008). Formação docente na área das dificuldades de aprendizagem: realidade ou utopia. Paper session presented at the meeting of VI Congreso Internacional de Educacion Superior, Cuba. Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (September, 2007). Insucesso escolar e dislexia de desenvolvimento: qual a relação?. Paper session presented at the meeting of IX Congreso International Galego-Portugués de Psicopedagogía, Corunha, Espanha. Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (November, 2006). Avaliação psicológica da dislexia de desenvolvimento. Paper session presented at the meeting of VI Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Universidade de Évora. 8.2 Poster Lénia Carvalhais, São Luís Castro (September, 2013) Literacy, dyslexia and ICT: a systematic Cross-European review of literature. Poster session presented at the meeting of 4 th All-European Dyslexia Conference, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Rui Alves, Teresa Limpo, Lénia Carvalhais, Luísa Pereira e Raquel Fidalgo (July, 2013). Dois programas para promover a fluência manuscrita e a ortografia no início da escolaridade. Poster session presented at the meeting of V Encontro Internacional de Reflexão sobre a Escrita, Universidade de Aveiro. Lénia Carvalhais, São Luís Castro (March, 2013). Reading and spelling acquisition in Portuguese, an orthography of intermediate depth. Poster session presented at the meeting of 11 th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Spain. Teresa Baptista, Lénia Carvalhais (September, 2012). The ability of autistic children to recognize facial expressions of emotions and the impact on social skills. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2 nd Annual European Congress on Learning Disabilities, Oviedo, Spain. Esther del Casltillo, Lénia Carvalhais (September, 2012). The use of personal pronouns by Portuguese children with high-functioning austistic disorder. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2 nd Annual European Congress on Learning Disabilities, Oviedo, Spain. Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (October, 2008). Construção da Bateria de Avaliação da Dislexia de Desenvolvimento: avaliação da leitura, escrita e memória de longo prazo. Poster session presented at the meeting of XIII Conferência Internacional: Avaliação Psicológica: Formas e Contextos, Universidade do Minho.

7 Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (August, 2007). Psychological assessment: talking about Dyslexia in Portugal. Poster session presented at the meeting of 13 th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Germany. Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (July, 2007). Assessment of phonological awareness in Portuguese children. Poster session presented at the meeting of 10 th European Congress of Psychology, Praga. Lénia Carvalhais, Carlos Fernandes da Silva (October, 2006). Avaliação diagnóstica da dislexia. Poster session presented at the meeting of XI Conferência Internacional: Avaliação Psicológica: Formas e Contextos, Universidade do Minho. 8.3 Workshops and Symposia Lénia Carvalhais (July, 2013). Promover o conhecimento ortográfico no 1º CEB [Promotion of the orthographic abilities in the primary school], presented at the V Encontro Internacional de Reflexão sobre a Escrita, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Lénia Carvalhais (February, 2009). Battery of Tests to Assess Developmental Dyslexia (BADD): An assessment tool for Dyslexia, presented at the British Dyslexia Association Meeting Dyslexia Making Links: From theory to Practice Conference, Oxford, UK. Lénia Carvalhais (November, 2008). Social, Emotional and Educational Consequences of Dyslexia, presented at the 17 th Annual World Congress on Learning Disabilities, Boston, USA. Lénia Carvalhais (November, 2007). Dyslexia Assessment in Portugal: Proposal of a New Instrument, presented at the 2 nd All-European Dyslexia Conference, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 9. Languages Language Reading Writing Conversation English Excellent French Spanish