She received her B.A. from Tel Aviv University and her doctoral degree from the program in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine and the Language in the Aging Brain Laboratory at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System. Her research interests include neurolinguistics of bilingualism, aphasia, first language attrition, and language and cognition in older age.