Paola Bonifacci is associate professor at the Department of Psychology Renzo Canestrari, University of Bologna. She is responsible for the Learning Disorders Assessment Laboratory (LADA) and the Clinical Service for the diagnosis of learning disorders. Her main reserach interests are referred to literacy development in bilingual language minority children and monolingual peers with and without Specific Learning Disorders; early literacy and numerical skills and their cognitive and environmental predictors; emotional correlates of Specific Learning Disorders in children and their parents.