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 2025-2026 academic year. Application deadline is Dec 1, 2024. Please see Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data for details.

Research Interests

• Developmental Neuropsychology
• Math and Reading Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
• Attention, Executive Function, and Domain General Abilities
• Design, Measurement, and Methodology

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

1. Calamia, M., Ready, R.E., *Kapoulea, E.A., *Farrell, A., *Runk, A., *Babicz-Boston, M.A., Woods, S.P., & Cirino, P.T. (2024). A survey of the perceptions and practices of faculty in clinical neuropsychology doctoral training programs: Is heterogeneity the norm? The Clinical Neuropsychologist.
2. Cirino, P.T., *Salentine, C., *Farrell, A.E., Barnes, M.A., & Roberts, G. (2024). Cognitive predictors of the overlap of reading and math in middle school. Learning and Individual Differences.
3. Cirino, P.T., *Farrell, A.E., Barnes, M.A., & Roberts, G.J. (2023). An evaluation of the structure of attention in adolescence. Developmental Neuropsychology, 48(4), 162-185.
4. Cirino, P.T. (2023). Framing executive function as a construct, and its relation to academic achievement. Mind, Brain, and Education, 17(4), 226-237.
5. *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.
6. Cirino, P.T. (2022). Math Disabilities. In M. Beauchamp, R. Peterson, D. Ris, G. Taylor, & K. Yeates (Eds.), Pediatric Neuropsychology, 3^rd Edition (Chapter 13). Guilford Press: New York (pp. 279-299).
7. *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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.