Dr. Kehayia, is an Associate Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Scientific Director, CRIR, the Centre for interdisciplinary research in rehabilitation of Greater Montréal. Her research focuses on three areas:

1. The study of the representation, organization and access of language in individuals across different languages,
2. The study of language breakdown in acquired and developmental language disorders and,
3. The impact of language disorders on the individual’s everyday life.

Her neurolinguistic research is carried out in the Language and Communication Research Lab at the Jewish Rehabilition Hospital. Dr Kehayia also heads the McGill branch of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-Major Collaborative Research Initiative investigating the architecture and nature of the Mental Lexicon, entitled ‘Words in the Mind-Words in the Brain’.