Faculty Mentors

Miriam Baigorri, PhD, CCC/SLP

  • University Affiliation: Long Island University-Brooklyn
  • Research Specializations: cleft palate and habilitation, cross language speech perception, communication disorders in bilinguals, and international-language pathology

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

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

Former Mentors

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

Daniel Kaufman, PhD

  • University Affiliation: CUNYQueens College
  • Other Affiliations: Endangered Language Alliance & Linguistics Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate Center
  • Research Specializations: Documentation and analyses of endangered and undocumented languages
  • Website: homepage
  • Research site: http://elalliance.org/

Martha Tyrone, PhD

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

Gina Youmans, PhD

  • University Affiliation: Long Island University, Downtown Brooklyn
  • Research Specializations: Acquired disorders including in individuals with Aphasia, Parkinson, Alzheimer; Pragmatic impairments
  • Website: homepage