Elizabeth Peña PhD, CCC-SLP, is George Christian Centennial Professor in Communication at The University of Texas as Austin. Her research focuses on bilingualism and language impairment. Her work on test development for bilinguals addresses assessment skills that differentiate among children with and without language impairment that allow responses that reflect cultural knowledge. In the area of intervention, she is interested in how children from diverse linguistic backgrounds learn new language skills and how they transfer knowledge between two language.Aquiles Iglesias PhD is Professor and Founding Director of the Speech-Language Pathology Program at the University of Delaware. He was formerly a professor at Temple University and held various administrative positions. His major area of research is cultural and linguistic diversity, with a concentration on language acquisition in bilingual children. He developed the BESA (Bilingual English/Spanish Assessmentƞ and has numerous publications. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and received its highest award, Honors of the Association. Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Provost & VP for Academic Affairs and Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. He received a masters and doctorate in speech-language pathology from Temple University and a bachelors in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Brandeis University. He is well-published in the area of speech sound development and disorders in bilingual populations. His focus is on phonological development and disorders in monolingual Spanish-speaking and Spanish-English bilingual children. He is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and received ASHA's Certificate of Recognition for Special Contribution in Multicultural Affairs.Lisa M. Bedore, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bedore's research interests focus on assessment and intervention for Spanish- English bilingual children with language impairment. Some of her work focuses on the ways that children's language experience and language ability interact in determining their language outcomes.

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Elizabeth Peña PhD, CCC-SLP, is George Christian Centennial Professor in Communication at The University of Texas as Austin. Her research focuses on bilingualism and language impairment. Her work on test development for bilinguals addresses assessment skills that differentiate among children with and without language impairment that allow responses that reflect cultural knowledge. In the area of intervention, she is interested in how children from diverse linguistic backgrounds learn new language skills and how they transfer knowledge between two language.Aquiles Iglesias PhD is Professor and Founding Director of the Speech-Language Pathology Program at the University of Delaware. He was formerly a professor at Temple University and held various administrative positions. His major area of research is cultural and linguistic diversity, with a concentration on language acquisition in bilingual children. He developed the BESA (Bilingual English/Spanish Assessmentƞ and has numerous publications. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and received its highest award, Honors of the Association. Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Provost & VP for Academic Affairs and Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. He received a masters and doctorate in speech-language pathology from Temple University and a bachelors in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Brandeis University. He is well-published in the area of speech sound development and disorders in bilingual populations. His focus is on phonological development and disorders in monolingual Spanish-speaking and Spanish-English bilingual children. He is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and received ASHA's Certificate of Recognition for Special Contribution in Multicultural Affairs.Lisa M. Bedore, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bedore's research interests focus on assessment and intervention for Spanish- English bilingual children with language impairment. Some of her work focuses on the ways that children's language experience and language ability interact in determining their language outcomes.

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Elizabeth Peña PhD, CCC-SLP, is George Christian Centennial Professor in Communication at The University of Texas as Austin. Her research focuses on bilingualism and language impairment. Her work on test development for bilinguals addresses assessment skills that differentiate among children with and without language impairment that allow responses that reflect cultural knowledge. In the area of intervention, she is interested in how children from diverse linguistic backgrounds learn new language skills and how they transfer knowledge between two language.Aquiles Iglesias PhD is Professor and Founding Director of the Speech-Language Pathology Program at the University of Delaware. He was formerly a professor at Temple University and held various administrative positions. His major area of research is cultural and linguistic diversity, with a concentration on language acquisition in bilingual children. He developed the BESA (Bilingual English/Spanish Assessmentƞ and has numerous publications. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and received its highest award, Honors of the Association. Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Provost & VP for Academic Affairs and Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. He received a masters and doctorate in speech-language pathology from Temple University and a bachelors in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Brandeis University. He is well-published in the area of speech sound development and disorders in bilingual populations. His focus is on phonological development and disorders in monolingual Spanish-speaking and Spanish-English bilingual children. He is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and received ASHA's Certificate of Recognition for Special Contribution in Multicultural Affairs.Lisa M. Bedore, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bedore's research interests focus on assessment and intervention for Spanish- English bilingual children with language impairment. Some of her work focuses on the ways that children's language experience and language ability interact in determining their language outcomes.

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