Isabelle Barrière, PhD

• University Affiliation: Molloy College, Long Island, New York
• Other Affiliations: Yeled V’Yalda Early Childhood Center & Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate Center
• Research Specializations: Acquisition of word and sentence-structure in monolingual and bilingual toddlers and preschoolers, emergent literacy, Romance Languages (French, different varieties of Spanish), English (different varieties), Haitian Creole, Russian, Yiddish
• Website: bio and publications
• Research Sites: yeled.org/res.asp
• Barriere Teaching Resources 1

Hia Datta, PhD

• University Affiliation: Molloy College, Long Island
• Research Specializations:  language processing, brain bases of language and communication in healthy adults and stroke patients, in typical and atypical development (including Autism Spectrum Disorders), and in multilinguals; effects of interventions; Worked on Bengali, Spanish
• Websites: homepage, publications

Kyle Gorman, PhD

• University Affiliation: CUNY The Graduate Center
• Research Specializations: phonology and morphology, productivity, phonotactics, finite-state methods, text normalization, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, natural language processing
• Website: homepage

Simanique Moody, PhD

• University Affiliation: CUNY Brooklyn College

Gemma Moya-Galé, PhD, CCC-SLP

• University Affiliation: Long Island University-Brooklyn
• Research Specializations: treatment efficacy for motor speech disorders across languages, particularly for Parkinson’s disease, and acquired neurogenic language disorders. 

Marisa Nagano, PhD

• University Affiliation: Long Island University, Downtown Brooklyn
• Research Specializations: Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Pronominal Reference,​ Japanese, Autism Spectrum Disorder 

Jonathan Nissenbaum, PhD

• University Affiliation: CUNY Brooklyn College
• Other Affiliation: Linguistics Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate Center
• Research Specializations: Interface between sentence structure (syntax) and meaning (semantics) and speakers’ knowledge of sounds (phonology); Cantonese.
• Website: homepage
• Research Site: Brooklyn College Linguistics Laboratory

Erin Reilly, PhD

• University Affiliation: Molloy College
• Research Specializations: autism, influence of stimuli on decision making, visual perspective taking, and language disorders
• Website: homepage

Valerie Shafer, PhD

• University Affiliation: CUNYGraduate Center
• Other Affiliations: University of Konstanz, Germany
• Research Specializations: The perception,  representation and processing of sounds and words and their neurological underpinnings
• Website: homepage
• Research Site: Research Laboratory

Katrien Vermeire, Ph.D., CCC-A, FAAA

• University Affiliation: Long Island University, Downtown Brooklyn
• Research Specializations: Cochlear implantation, aging hearing, working memory, and speech recognition

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