Omer Levy Kardash

Omer is a Ph.D. student at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation focuses on the development of identity formation among adolescents who stutter. Omer works as a speech and language pathologist and clinical guide at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, and in a private clinic. She achieved distinction in her M.A. degree in Child Development at the Faculty of Education from Bar Ilan University and in her B.A. degree in Communication Disorders from the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. In addition, Omer is a faculty member in the Department of Communication Disorders at Tel Aviv University, where she teaches stuttering exercises, a multi-disciplinary course for developing teamwork, and a language disorders exercise to B.A. students. Additionally, she conducts therapy groups for children who stutter and their parents at the university. She also volunteers at AMBI, the Organization of People Who Stutter in Israel, winning the President's Award for Volunteering in 2022. Omer's academic excellence has been acknowledged by her receipt of the President's Scholarships program for doctoral students in the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her publications include the following:
Freud, D., Levy-Kardash, O., Glick, I., & Ezrati-Vinacour, R. (2019). Pilot program combining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with stuttering modification therapy for adults who stutter: A case report. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 72(4), 290-301.
 Amir, O., Wolf, M., Mick, L., Levi, O., & Primov-Fever, A. (2015). Parents' evaluations of their children's dysphonia: The mamas and the papas. Journal of Voice, 29(4), 469-475.