2022 Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention

The Research Symposium is an annual event at ASHA's Convention where clinicians and researchers discuss current research in communication sciences and disorders. Each year's symposium has a specific research theme.

Find out more about the Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention and its associated travel award.

Symposium Topic

Bilingualism

Symposium Presentations

Phonological Assessment through a Social Justice Lens
Speaker: Leah Fabiano-Smith, PhD, CCC-SLP (University of Pittsburgh)

Supporting Culturally Responsive Pediatric Assessments: Guidance from Methods Used in the Jamaican Context
Speaker: Karla Washington, PhD, CCC-SLP, S-LP(C) (University of Toronto)

Combining Languages in the Input to Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder
Speaker: Margarita Kaushanskaya, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Bilingual Development in Context: Children’s First Language in Assessment and Beyond
Speaker: Giang Pham, PhD, CCC-SLP (San Diego State University)

Questioning Assumptions of the Bilingual Delay in Children with and without DLD
Speakers: Elizabeth Peña, PhD, CCC-SLP (University of California, Irvine) and Lisa Bedore, PhD, CCC-SLP (Temple University)

Bilingual Spanish and English Language Development: Implications for Research and Practice
Speaker: Anny Castilla-Earls, PhD (University of Houston)

The Research Symposium at ASHA Convention is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

Symposium Publications

Papers based on the 2022 Research Symposium were published in a Forum in the December 2023 issue of Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) and are open access.

Fabiano, L. (2023). Introduction to the Research Symposium on Bilingualism Forum. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 12(66), 4673-4677. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00661
Castilla-Earls, A., Ronderos, J., Fitton, L. (2023). Spanish bilingual morphosyntactic development in bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder: Articles, clitics, verbs, and the subjunctive mood. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 12(66), 4678-4698. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00091
Kaushanskaya, M. (2023). Combining languages in bilingual input: Using experimental evidence to formulate bilingual exposure strategies. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 12(66), 4771-4784. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00181
Pena, E. D., Bedore, L. M., Granados Vargas, A. (2023). Exploring assumptions of bilingual delay in children with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 12(66), 4739-4755. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00117
Pham, G. T. (2023). A narrative approach to synthesizing research on Vietnamese bilingual and monolingual children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 12(66), 4756-4770. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00047
Sieg, S. R., Fabiano, L., Barlow, J. (2023). Substitution errors and the role of markedness in bilingual phonological acquisition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 12(66), 4699-4715. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00116
Washington, K., Wright Karem, R., Kokotek, L. E., León, M. (2023). Supporting culturally responsive assessment practices with preschoolers: guidance from methods in the Jamaican context. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research12(66), 4716-4738. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00106