Lourdes Martinez Nieto, PhD

• Dr. Martinez-Nieto is currently faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater. She completed her B.A. in Modern Languages and her master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro in Mexico. She completed the doctoral program in Speech and Hearing Sciences in summer 2018 with Dr. Restrepo as her mentor. Lulu was a recipient of a scholarship from CONACYT. Her research interests include Spanish language development in monolingual and bilingual children, L1 maintenance in subtractive bilingual environments, and exploring new methods for the identification of language impairment in bilingual children.
• August 2018
• Email: martinem@uww.edu

Ashley Adams, PhD, CCC-SLP

• Dr. Adams is currently a postdoctoral research scientist in the School of Education at the University of California - Irvine. Ashley graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 2006 with a BA in Psychology. She completed the doctoral program in Speech and Hearing Sciences in 2017 with Dr. Restrepo as her mentor. Ashley is a licensed bilingual speech-language pathologist who has worked primarily with Spanish-English bilingual populations and special education preschool. Her research focuses on developing and implementing literacy interventions for Spanish-English dual language learners at the individual, small group, and classroom level.
• August 2017
• Email: adamsa3@uci.edu

Beatriz Barragán, PhD

• Dr. Barragán is currently a faculty associate in the College of Health Solutions at ASU. She has a MA in Experimental Psychology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and a MS in Clinical Research Management from ASU in addition to her PhD from ASU. She is interested in the neurobiological bases of bilingual language production and perception, specifically on how the neural systems for language might be modified by the bilingual experience. Beatriz was awarded the Marilyn Miller Quintana Moline Scholarship for the 2015-2016 academic year.
• May 2017
• Email: beatriz.barragans@asu.edu

Davis Henderson, PhD, CCC-SLP

• Dr. Henderson is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at the University of Mississippi. He completed the PhD program at ASU in 2017 with Dr. Restrepo as his mentor. His interest areas include: American Indian/Native American/Navajo Languages, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Developing Language Delay and Dynamic Assessment.
• May 2017
• Email: hnderson@olemiss.edu

Carol Mesa, PhD

• Dr. Mesa is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford in the department of Experimental Psychology. She graduated from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia South America) with a B.A. in Speech and Language Pathology in 2002; she completed her master’s degree in Education at the same university in 2009. Carol joined the ASU doctoral program in Speech and Hearing Science in the fall of 2009. Carol is interested in studying language and early literacy development of young children and language assessment and intervention in schools.
• May 2015
• Email: carol.mesaguecha@psy.ox.ac.uk

Ekaterina Smyk, PhD, CCC-SLP

• Dr. Smyk is currently an adjunct faculty member at Portland State University as well as a speech-language pathologist in the Hillsboro School District in Portland. Her research has focused upon the areas of typical and atypical language acquisition in bilingual children and identification of language impairment in bilingual populations. Her dissertation project investigated the effects of language impairment on English language acquisition in bilingual children and differentiation between bilingual children with and without language impairment at different levels of English language proficiency. She has also worked on several research projects that investigated the language skills of bilingual children with and without language disorders and the effects of bilingual and English-only intervention on the development of two languages. In addition, she worked on the development and validation of a criterion-based measure of oral language proficiency for bilingual children.
• May 2012
• Email: smyk@pdx.edu

Maria Kapantzoglou, PhD, CCC-SLP

• Dr. Kapantzoglou is an assistant professor at Portland State University (PSU) and a certified trilingual speech-language pathologist. Her research focuses on the assessment of language skills in bilingual children with and without primary language impairment. She has a Master in Measurement, Statistics and Methodological Study, and she has worked in federally funded projects to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate assessment tools for Spanish-English speaking children. She has worked with bilingual children in four different countries and in three languages: English, Spanish and Greek. At PSU, she teaches courses on speech and language disorders, and supervises graduate students in the bilingual concentration.
• May 2012
• Email: mkapa2@pdx.edu
• Lab Website: http://bilingualresearchlab.wix.com/bilingual-research

Gareth Morgan, PhD

• Dr. Morgan was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas, Austin. His research interests included: Bilingual child language development and disorders, issues in assessment and treatment of bilingual children with language disorders, language proficiency, Test and Scale Development, language assessment and screening measures, use of Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory as they pertain to measurement in education and the inclusion of cognitive models in test and scale development. Currently, he is the Vice President for Morgan Scientific, Inc.
• May 2011
• Email: gmorgan@morgansci.com