Doc Funding at Pitt focusing on language and literacy

Now In Press

Sheng, L., Bedore, L.M., Peña, E.D., & Fiestas, C.M. (in press). Semantic development in Spanish-English bilingual children: Effects of age and language experience. Child Development.

Bedore, L.M., Peña, E.D., Summers, C., Boerger, K., Resendiz, M., Greene, K., Bohman, T., & Gillam, R. (in press). The Measure Matters: Language Dominance Profiles across Measures in Spanish/English Bilingual Children. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition.

 

 

 

Friday Colloquium

 Kai Greene will present on “Lexical choice and language selection in bilingual preschoolers” Feb 3, at 2pm in the Burson Room.

 

Young English Learners

New Issue of AccEllerate– Peña, Bedore & Gibson have a little piece on assessment.

Asha 2011

We have several posters and talks at Asha this year by HABLA lab faculty, alums, and students along with collaborators from other universities:

• Kai Greene, Lisa Bedore, Elizabeth Peña: The Lexical Code-Switching Patterns of English-Spanish Bilingual Preschoolers
• Li Sheng, Lisa Bedore, Elizabeth Peña: Semantic Development in Spanish-English Bilingual Children
• Ying Lu & Li Sheng: Lexical-Semantic Development in Mandarin-English Bilingual Children
• Chistine Fiestas, Lisa Bedore, Elizabeth Peña & Li Sheng: The Definitional Skills of Bilingual Children: Age & Language Experience
• Katie Squires, Ron Gillam, Mirza Lugo-Neris, Lisa Bedore, &  Elizabeth Peña:  Story Retelling of Bilingual Children with SLI
• Connie Summers, Marcela Diaz, Elizabeth Peña, & Lisa Bedore:  Macrostructure Analysis of English & Spanish Narratives in Bilingual Children

Using Two Languages to Make Diagnostic Decisions

Here’s a new article that came out this week in the Asha Leader that Lisa Bedore and I wrote. In this short piece we presented some of our BESOS data to demonstrate how screening in two languages can be combined to increase diagnostic accuracy.

In press

Peña, E. D., Gillam, R. B., Bedore, L.M., & Bohman, T. (in press). Risk for Poor Performance on a Language Screening Measure for
Bilingual Preschoolers and Kindergarteners. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.

Going to Dallas

I’ll be up at UTD on Friday to give a talk at the FLASH seminar. Don’t know what FLASH stands for but, I love it!

Okay, it stands for Friday Seminars in Speech Language and Hearing– or it doesn’t. I don’t know. but here’s the info:

http://www.utdallas.edu/calliercenter/documents/FLASHScheduleSpring2011.pdf

Asha in Philadelphia

We have two posters and a seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association this year:

School-Age, Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Narrative Production: Leveraging Knowledge of Argument Structure by Karin Boerger, Lisa M. Bedore, and Elizabeth D. Peña

Definitional Skills of Bilingual Children With Language Impairment by Christine Fiestas, Elizabeth D. Peña, and Lisa M. Bedore

Diagnostic Markers of Language Impairment in Bilinguals by Elizabeth D. Peña, Ronald B. Gillam, Lisa M. Bedore, and Thomas Bohman

We made the College of Communication News again!

Well, we have a new grant– we’re pretty excited about this. We’ll be developing interventions for Spanish-English speaking bilingual children with risk for reading and language impairments. Read more here.