Omer Ari

Reading interventions
Psycholinguistics (Cognitive processes of reading)

Omer Ari is a clinical associate professor in the College of Education & Human Development’s Department of Middle and Secondary Education and program coordinator for the B.I.S. in Human Learning and Development. He holds a master’s in applied linguistics/ESL and a doctorate in reading, language and literacy education from Georgia State University. After completing his doctoral work at Georgia State, Dr. Ari worked with young struggling readers at Appalachian State University’s (ASU) renowned Reading Clinic while teaching courses on the foundations of literacy and psychological processes of reading as a clinical instructor at ASU’s Reading Education and Special Education Department.

His major research interests include cognitive processes of reading and ways to increase the efficiency of this process in struggling readers. As part of this research agenda, Dr. Ari has designed measures of differential exposure to print, examined the utility of various reading assessments with readers, and designed reading fluency interventions using instructional components that have been found effective in the literature.

Most recently, he has worked at Bloomsburg University’s (BU) Department of Developmental Instruction as an assistant professor. At BU, Ari developed strategies for struggling college readers in order to help them increase their reading fluency, their ability to learn unfamiliar content found in their textbooks, and their disposition to process information metacognitively through execution of higher levels of thinking. At BU, he also redesigned the developmental reading education curriculum around the goals of developing reading fluency skills, disciplinary literacy, and integrated reading-writing and language skills through project/inquiry based learning experiences.