Eva Kehayia
Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University
Eva Kehayia is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University, Adjunct Professor at the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at McGill University and Scientific Co-Director of Feil Oberfeld research site of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of greater Montréal (CRIR).
Her research program spans two main streams of local, national and international activities and funding. The first stream, in the area of psycholinguistics/neurolinguistics, focuses on the study of the architecture of the Mental Lexicon in unilingual, bilingual and multilingual adults, healthy aging and individuals with language limitations due to acquired neurological conditions. The second stream of research addresses health and well-being, accessibility, inclusion and participation of persons living with physical disabilities. Using a Living Lab approach for the past 15 years, she has been conducting and fostering interdisciplinary and intersectoral projects in the community, in everyday lived spaces, leisure environments, including museums. Her recently published, co-edited book Musée pour tous-Aude Porcedda-Editions Hermann, provides a collection of views on accessibility and inclusion in museum environments in Europe and Canada.