UNM Bilingual Speech & Language Lab

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Selecting Targets for Bilingual Children with Phonological Delays

Was a lot of fun to present at the conference in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 last week with We look forward to rolling out a couple papers on the importance of collaboration between SLPs and mental health providers and bilingual communication support for bilingual children with speech and language delays.

https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_LSHSS-23-00043

Spanish-Speaking Mothers' Experiences of School-Based Speech Therapy Purpose: Spanish-speaking families are a growing population that speech-language pathologists must be prepared to work with. To provide culturally responsive intervention, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) must understand the perspectives of Spanish-speaking caregivers when providing intervention....

New Pub Alert

Ethically Responsible Participant Selection in Research: A Viewpoint Purpose: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the profession of speech and hearing sciences. However, there exist significant discrepancies between the demographics of our members and the populations served. Thes...

New pub alert! 🚨This was project started years ago by .nicolev and so happy to see it in published form.

Need to earn some ASHA CEUs? Check out SLP Linked Conference this weekend. Oh, and yes, that’s me on the agenda😁

And one more from summer… this one is from my dissertation!

A cross-linguistic approach to treating speech sound disorders in bilingual children The present study explores generalisation of production skills across languages when treating speech sound disorders in bilingual children. Early work suggests that treating shared sounds across la...

A paper published recently that I’m behind on posting related to using complex targets with bilingual children with phono delays

A Complexity Approach to Promoting Within- and Cross-Language Generalization in Bilingual Children With Phonological Delays Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of generalization when treating complex targets with shared sounds in Spanish for a 5-year-old Spanish–English bilingual child with a phonological delay.

See us in the UNM news!

Speech & Hearing Sciences team researches novel approach to bilingual speech therapy It’s a difficult, impressive feat on its own to help children work through speech problems. It’s even more inspiring when you take into account the bridge of language itself. Carlos Irizarry-Pérez That’s a path just crossed by UNM Speech & Hearing...

Excited to see our work being featured!

For our article feature today, we would like to spotlight a Pilot Study, "Establishing Cueing Skills When Treating Bilingual Speech Sound Disorders." In this study, researchers explored the impact of training students to use a cueing protocol with bilingual children with speech sound disorders. To learn more about the results of this study, check out the full article here: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/tlcsd/vol7/iss2/2/

Have you been working on a SoTL pilot study? Consider submitting your work to TLCSD. Pilot studies represent emerging and developing research on teaching and learning. Submissions in this category should include an explanation of early results from the investigation and should give provide explanations for any limitations in the study as well as report on plans for next steps for the future.