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Paul T. Cirino

Paul T. Cirino

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 2026-2027 academic year. Application deadline is Dec 1, 2025. 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. *Halverson, K.K., Bick, J., Medina, L., McKinney, L., & Cirino, P.T. (in press, 2025). Impact of acculturation on math achievement in community college students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
  1. Krause, C.A., Escamilla, K.J., Hyland, M.T., Gonzalez, A.S., Woods, S.P., Cirino, P.T., Williams, M.W., & Medina, L.D. (in press, 2025). An initial review of doctoral clinical neuropsychology coursework syllabi: Common trends and core Competencies. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
  1. *Salentine, C. M., Bick, J., Woods, S. P., & Cirino, P. T. (in press, 2025). Overlapping cognitive predictors for writing and math achievement. Child Neuropsychology.
  2. *Farrell, A., Cirino, P.T., Barnes, M.A., & Woods, S.P. (in press, 2025). Interactions of decoding, working memory, and mind wandering on reading comprehension. Reading Psychology.
  3. Bradley, K.A., Fletcher, J.M., Juranek, J.J., Hannay, H.J., Cirino, P.T., & Kramer, L.A. (2024). Corpus callosum structure and auditory interhemispheric transfer in spina bifida myelomeningocele. Neuropsychology, 38(8), 687.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Cirino, P.T. (2023). Framing executive function as a construct, and its relation to academic achievement. Mind, Brain, and Education, 17(4), 226-237.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. 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.