War poses a unique crisis situation for special education teachers, with uncertainty, lack of resources, and fears for their own and their students' safety, compounded by a complex student population. This study explored Israeli special education preschool teachers' stress and well-being in the war that began on October 7, 2023, focusing on how…

Research has demonstrated that college students with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) such as specific learning disorders (SLD) and/or attention deficit disorders (ADHD) often experience higher levels of loneliness compared to their peers. However, only a few studies have explored the contextual factors that predicted this disparity. This study…

Purpose: This study examined how subgroups of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) perform on theory of mind (ToM) tasks and comprehend mental terms. Method: Eighty Hebrew-speaking children aged 5-6 years were divided into four groups: children with DLD, ASD and language impairment (ASD-LI), and…

Bilingual children are at risk for gaps in literacy in the societal language compared to monolingual peers. However, most research has focused on reading achievement, and only few studies have investigated spelling abilities, with contradictory findings. Here, we compare Hebrew spelling skill and its predictors in bilingual and monolingual…

This study examined the stability and change in career aspirations throughout the college-to-work transition among ethnic minority Arab students in Israel and tested the contributions of contextual and personal factors to career aspirations before and after this transition. At Time 1, 957 Arab students in Israel participated at the end of their…

This study explores how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) supports motivation and satisfaction among adult learners in an English Medium Instruction (EMI) course in a non-English-dominant context. EMI environments present linguistic and cognitive challenges, particularly for adults with limited prior exposure to academic English, which…