Dr. Aviah Gvion

Lecturer in the Department of Communication Disorders

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Dr. Aviah Gvion received her Ph.D. from the School of Education, Tel Aviv University and her M.A. and B.A. degrees from the School of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University, cum laude. She is the Director of the Department of Communication Disorders, Reut Medical Center, Tel Aviv. Dr. Gvion served as a communication clinician at Levinstein Hospital, an adult care clinic and as a district communication clinician, Dan – Petah Tikva District, Clalit Health Fund. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Communication Disorders at Tel Aviv University, previously lecturing at Bar Ilan University.

Research interests

Acquired Language Disorders, Dyslexia and Acquired and Developmental Graphic Disorders

Selected Publications

Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2013). Pathology of lamguage. In G. Kahn, S. Bolokzy, SE, Fassberg, GA, Rendsburg, AD, Rubin, OR, Schwartzwold, & T., Zewi, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics, volume III (pz) (pp 49-53). Brill.
Gvion, A., & Gil, M. (2011). Communicative disorders - language and speech disorders, and related disorders in rehabilitation. In Ori, A., Lazary, A., and Heruti, R. (Eds.). Principles of rehabilitation medicine, Probook. (in Hebrew).
Friedmann, N., Gvion, A., & Novogrodsky, R. (2006). Syntactic movement in agrammatism and S-SLI: Two different impairments. In A. Belletti, E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di Domenico & I. Ferrari (Eds.), Language acquisition and development (pp. 197-210). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press / CSP.
Biran, M., Gvion. A., Sharabi, L., & Gil, M. (2013). The representations of homophones in the phonological lexicon: Additional evidence from Hebrew. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 86-87.
Gvion, A., Friedmann, N. (2013) .Developmental and acquired surface dyslexia and anomia as a result of shared deficit in the phonological output buffer. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 205-206.
Lifshiz-Ben Basat, A., Gvion, A., Jean-Jacques, V., & Mashal, N. (2013). Transcranial direct current stimulation to improve naming abilities of persons with chronic aphasia: An individualized based protocol.Procedia social and behavioral Sciences, 94, 242.
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2013). A selective deficit in imageable concepts: Awindow to the organization of the conceptual system. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, doi: 10.3389 / fnhum.2013.00226.
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2012). An even more universal model of reading: Various effects of orthography on dyslexias. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 (5), 23-24. doi: 10.1017 / S0140525X12000167
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2012). Intervention and Locality in agrammatic aphasia. In the internet celebration for Luigi Rizzi’s 60th birthday (pp. 1-13). Siena, Italy: CISCLWorking Papers.
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2012). Does phonological working memory limitations affect sentence comprehension? A study of conduction aphasia. Aphasiology, 26 (3-4), 494-535.
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2012). Phonological short term memory in conduction aphasia. Aphasiology, 26 (3-4), 579-614. (Impact Factor: 1,415).
Friedmann, N., Biran, M., & Gvion, A. (2012). Patterns of visual dyslexia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 6, 1-30.
Friedmann, N., Tzailer-Gross, L., & Gvion. A. (2011) The effect of syntax on reading in neglect dyslexia. Neuropsychologia, 49 (10), 2803-2816.
Gvion, A., & Olenik, D. (2011). I have a stich disorders speech disorders: Aphasia, an acquired language impairment. Journal of the Israeli Neurological Association, 7, 32-34 (in Hebrew).
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2010). Dyscravia: Voicing substitution dysgraphia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 1935-1947.
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2010). Letter position dysgraphia. Cortex, 46, 1100-1113.
Gvion, A., Friedmann, N., Zaksenberg, R.I., andMor, R. (2010). Subtypes of developmental surface dysgraphia. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6, 145-147.
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2010). Dyslexia subtypes. In the Israeli Orton Dyslexia publication, D. Finkelstein (Ed.), All you wanted to know about dyslexia. (in Hebrew).
Gvion, A., Friedmann, N., & Yachini, M. (2008). Writing and dysgraphia: On the writing process, writing impairments, and the relation between dysgraphia and dyslexia. In the Israeli Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PMR) bulletin, Shikumada, 26, 32-35. (In Hebrew).
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2008). FriGvi: Phonological working memory battery. Language and Brain, 7, 161-180. (In Hebrew).
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2007). Is phonological working memory involved in sentence comprehension? The difference between phonological and semantic reactivation. In Y. Falk (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th IATL conference. (pp. 1-54).
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2007). As far as individuals with conduction aphasia understood these sentences were ungrammatical: Garden path in conduction aphasia. Aphasiology, 21, 570-586.
Friedmann, N., Gvion, A., Biran, M., & Novogrodsky, R. (2006).Do people with agrammatic aphasia understand verb movement? Aphasiology, 20, 136-153.
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2005). Letter form as a constraint for errors in neglect dyslexia and letter position dyslexia. Behavioral Neurology, 16, 145-158.
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2004). Dyslexias: types, characteristics and treatment directions. In the Israeli Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PMR) bulletin, Shikumada, 22, 3-6. (in Hebrew).
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2003). Sentence comprehension and working memory limitation in aphasia: a dissociation between semantic and phonological encoding. Brain and Language, 86, 23-39.
Gvion, A. & Shterenberg, P. (2003). The normal and the impaired swallowing mechanism: Case studies. Medical Nutrition in the 3rd age. (in Hebrew).
Gvion, A., Biran, M., & Friedmann, N. (2002). Does phonological working memory limitation cause comprehension deficits in agrammatic and conduction aphasia. Brain and Language, 83, 87-90.
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2002). Modularity in developmental disorders: Evidence from SLI and peripheral dyslexias. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(6), 756-757. (Impact Factor:21.952).
Gvion, A. (Ed). Studies of Aphasia: Theoretical and clinical aspects. Israeli Journal of Language, Speech and Hearing Disorders, 24, 2002 (in Hebrew).
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2001). Letter position dyslexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18(8), 673-696.
Gvion, A. (1998). Swallowing therapy- case studies. Israeli Journal of Language, Speech and Hearing Disorders, 20, 111-116. (in Hebrew).
Friedmann, N. & Gvion, A. TILTAN: Battery for the diagnosis of dyslexias. Tel Aviv University, 2003. (in Hebrew)
Friedmann, N., & Gvion, A. (2002). FriGvi: Friedmann Gvion battery for assessment of phonological Working Memory. Tel Aviv University. (in Hebrew)

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