Céleste YOUNES HARB

Assistant Professor

Institute of Psychomotor Therapy
Directeur Centre de diagnostic et de soins en psychomotricité - Directeur IPM

Higher Institute of Speech and Language Therapy
Chargé de Cours

01/421 000 ext 6616 celeste.younes@usj.edu.lb

Celeste Younes Harb, 43 years old, is the Director of the Institute of Psychomotricity (IPM) at Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ). She is an Assistant Professor and holds a PhD through a joint supervision between the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Medicine at USJ (Biomechanics and Functional Neuroimaging Axis) and the Doctoral School of Life and Health Sciences at Aix-Marseille University (Neurosciences Department). Her doctoral research focused on the behavioral and neurofunctional study of handwriting in adults within the framework of bigraphism. In addition to her academic contributions, Celeste is a member of the University Council and the Student Council of USJ. She also serves as the Academic Coordinator of the Master’s program. Since September 2013, she has been practicing as a psychomotor therapist at the LHCR Center in Beirut, Hôtel-Dieu de France, specializing in the care of individuals with neurological disorders.

Areas of expertise

Medecine and Health

Research themes

Etude des processus sous-jacents à l’écriture chez l’enfant et l’adulte dans le cadre SAFE_USJ_du bilinguisme/ bigraphisme,•Adaptation d’outils psychomoteurs à la population libanaise,•Etude des processus de conception et de production de gestes chez des sujets adultes cérébrolésés,•Validation de protocole de rééducation

Publications and communications

Fabiani, E., Velay, J.-L., Younes-Harb, C., Jean-Luc, A., Nazarian, B., Sein, J., Habib, M., Danna, J. & Longcamp, M. (2023). Writing letters in two graphic systems: Behavioral neural correlates in French/Arabic biscripters. Neuropsychologia. 185. 108567. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108567.2.Alhaddad, G., Danna, J., Younes-Harb, C., Velay, J.-L., Longcamp, M. (2022). Effects of Biscriptuality on Graphomotor Coordination Dynamics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception Performance. 49. 10.1037/xhp0001075.3.Younes Harb, C., Matta Abizeid, C., Albaret, J.-M., &, Velay, J.-L. (2018). Studying handwriting in a bilingual biographic Arabic- French setting. ANAE- Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages de l’enfant. 30(153):209-216.4.Matta Abizeid, C., Tabsh Nakib, A., Younes Harb, C., Ghantous, S., Albaret, J.M. (2017) Standardization of the French Handwriting scale (BHK) on Lebanese children aged 6 to 12 years.5.Matta Abizeid, C., Younes Harb, C., Ghantous, S., Najm Samarani, C., Albaret, J.M. (Soumis) Conception and standardization of the Arabic handwriting scale for children (STAKIA) on Lebanese children aged 6 to 12 years.6.Younes Harb, C., Matta Abizeid, C., Albaret, J.-M., &, Velay, J.-L. (2016). Étude comportementale de l’écriture chez des sujets adultes dans le cadre SAFE_USJ_du bigraphisme. In J.-M. Albaret, C. Matta Abizeid & R. Soppelsa (Eds.), Les entretiens de Psychomotricité 2016. Toulouse : Europa Digital & Publishing.7.Matta Abizeid, C., Ghantous Faddoul, S., Younes Harb, C., & Albaret, J.-M. (2016). L’écriture chez les enfants bilingues et bigraphes au Liban. In J.-M. Albaret, C. Matta Abizeid & R. Soppelsa (Eds.), Les entretiens de Psychomotricité 2016. Toulouse: Europa Digital & Publishing.8.Khoury Eid, I., Younes-Harb C., & Matta Abizeid C. (2011). Elaboration de protocoles de prise en charge psychomotrice dans le cadre SAFE_USJ_du centre de diagnostic et de soins en psychomotricité (CDSP). Evolutions Psychomotrices, 21, 83, 21-31.9.Matta Abizeid, C., Younes-Harb, C., & Albaret, J.-M. (2010). Etalonnage de tests psychomoteurs sur la population libanaise. In C. Matta Abizeid & J.-M. Albaret (Eds.), Regards sur la psychomotricité libanaise (2000-2010) : de la théorie à l’examen psychomoteur (pp. 29-88) (éd. bilingue). Beyrouth: Université Saint-Joseph.