Associate professor in the Department of School Counseling and Special Education in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University; from 2008-2011, she was head of the Special Education program and also served as co-chair of the Israel Association for Language and Literacy. In the coming academic year, she will head the department's Educational Counseling program. Prof. Aram is a member of the board of both the Israel Association for Language and Literacy and the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP). She studies the nature of parent and kindergarten teachers' interaction with children during conversation, reading a book and writing, and is examining its impact on emergent literacy and the social-emotional development of normally developing children as well as those with special needs and children from low socio-economic backgrounds. Prof. Aram holds a Ph.D. degree in education from Tel Aviv University, received in 1998.