Paul T. Cirino, Ph.D.
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Professor
Director of Developmental Neuropsychology Lab
Clinical Psychology
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics
Ph.D., University of Houston
Health 1, Room 480
832-842-2002
pcirino@uh.edu
Paul Cirino CV
Dr. Cirino will be reviewing graduate student applications for the 2024-2025 academic year. Application deadline is Dec 1, 2023. Please see Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data for details.
Research Interests
- Developmental Neuropsychology
- Math and Reading Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
- Attention, Working Memory, and Executive Functions
- Measurement and Metholodology
Teaching
- PSYC 7338: Cognitive Disorders and Lifespan Neuropsychology: II (graduate)
- PSYC 6356: Clinical Assessment I (graduate)
- PSYC 6357: Clinical Assessment II (graduate)
- PSYC 3301: Introduction to Psychological Statistics (undergraduate)
- PSYC 1300: Introduction to Psychology (undergraduate)
Selected Publications (past 3 years)
*DNL Student Lab Member
- Cirino, P.T., *Farrell, A.E., Barnes, M.A., & Roberts, G.J. (in press, 2023). An evaluation of the structure of attention in adolescence. Developmental Neuropsychology.
- Cirino, P.T. (in press, 2023). Framing executive function as a construct, and its relation to academic achievement. Mind, Brain, and Education.
- *Gioia, A., Cirino, P.T., Ahmed, Y., & Woods, S.P. (2023). Properties of a combined measure of reading and writing: The Assessment of Writing, Self-Monitoring, and Reading (AWSM Reader). Reading and Writing, 36(3), 723-744.
- Cirino, P.T. (2022). Math Disabilities. In M. Beauchamp, R. Peterson, D. Ris, G. Taylor, & K. Yeates (Eds.), Pediatric Neuropsychology, 3rd Edition (Chapter 13). Guilford Press: New York (pp. 279-299).
- *Macdonald, K.T., Francis, D.J., Hernandez, A.E., Castilla-Earls, A., & Cirino, P.T. (2022). Characterization of proficiency levels and balance among middle school English learners with reading difficulties. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25(5), 899-912
- Cirino, P.T., Tolar, T.D., & Fuchs, L.S. (2022). Domain general and specific contributions to algebra: A sequenced longitudinal path model. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 68, 102026.
- Cirino, P.T., Barnes, M.A., Roberts, G., Miciak, J., & *Gioia, A. (2022). Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105289.
- Ahmed, Y., Kent, S., Cirino, P.T., & Keller-Margulis, M. (2022). The not-so-simple view of writing in struggling readers/writers. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 38(3), 272-296.
- *Babicz, M.A., Woods, S. P., Cirino, P.T., Presley, C., Colton, Z., & Podell, K. (2022). Vestibular/ocular motor screening is independently associated with concussion symptom severity in youths. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 32(1), 40-45.
- *Halverson, K.K., Derrick, J.L., Medina, L.D., & Cirino, P.T. (2021). Executive functioning in struggling readers: The NIH EXAMINER. Developmental Neuropsychology, 46(3), 213-231.
- *Macdonald, K.T., Cirino, P.T., Miciak, J., & Grills, A. (2021). The role of reading anxiety among struggling readers in fourth and fifth grade. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 37(4), 382-394.
- *Gerst, E.H., Cirino, P.T., Miciak, J., *Macdonald, K., Yoshida, H., Gibbs, M.C., & Woods, S.P. (2021). The structure of processing speed in children and its impact on reading. Journal of Cognition and Development, 22(1), 84-107.
- *Fischer, J.T., Cirino, P.T., DeMaster, D., Alfano, C., Bick, J., Fan, W., & Ewing-Cobbs, L. (2021). Frontostriatal white matter integrity relations with ‘cool’ and ‘hot’ self-regulation following pediatric traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neurotrauma, 38(1), 122-132.
- Medina, L.D., *Torres, S., *Gioia, A., *Lopez, A.O., Wang, J., & Cirino, P.T. (2021). Reporting of demographic variables in neuropsychological research: An update of O’Bryant et al.’s 2004 trends in the current literature. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 27(5), 497-507.
- *Macdonald, K.T., Barnes, M.A., Miciak, J., Roberts, G., *Halverson, K.K., Vaughn, S., & Cirino, P.T. (2021). Sustained attention and behavioral ratings of attention in struggling readers. Scientific Studies of Reading, 25(5), 436-451.