Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Education:PhD, Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Wisconsin – Madison
MS, Speech Language Pathology, University of Wisconsin – Madison
BA, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Kean University
Aspects of the bilingual environment that may have consequences for how language and cognition develop and operate
The nature and developmental trajectory of language impairment in bilingual children
Input factors (e.g., code-switch input; speaker variability) and cognitive factors (e.g., attention, cognitive control) that modulate how learners extract the meanings of words and find patterns in language
Slawny, C., Crespo, K., Ellis Weismer, S. & Kaushanskaya, M. (2022). Social pragmatic communication and length of bilingualism predict executive function skills in bilingual children. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research
Larson, C., Crespo., K., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2021). Testing an interference-based model of working memory in children with developmental language disorder and their typically developing peers. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43 (43).