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  1. The Diagnostic Value of English Language Sample Measures for Identifying Developmental Language Disorder in Bilingual Children

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, March 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  2. Tailoring Grammatical Test Items in English According to Language Experience for the Classification of Developmental Language Disorder in Bilinguals

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  3. Exploring variability in code- and meaning-focused skills in English and Spanish: A latent profile analysis of bilingual children

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  4. Developmental Language Risk and Social and Behavioral Functioning in Bilingual Latinx Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  5. Improving the Efficiency of the Bilingual Input–Output Survey–Home

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, January 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Alexander Choi-Tucci, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Mariana Gomez

  6. Exploring variability in code- and meaning-focused skills in English and Spanish: A latent profile analysis of bilingual children

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  7. When Words Shift: Age and Language of Elicitation Influence Syntagmatic-Paradigmatic Shifts in Bilingual Children

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  8. Identifying the Impact of Word Characteristics on Vocabulary Development in Typically Developing Bilingual School-Age Children

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, November 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  9. Development and Validation of Nomogram-Based Prediction Models for Developmental Language Disorder in Bilingual Children

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Dr Aquiles Iglesias, Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  10. Relationships Between Home and School Language Exposure and Changes in Bilingual Oral Language Performance From Kindergarten to First Grade

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  11. Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, June 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  12. Fill in the Blank: English Morphosyntax Production in Matched Bilingual Groups

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  13. The Effect of Performance Feedback on the Implementation Fidelity of Narrative Mediated Learning Sessions by School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Wendy Meyer, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  14. Spanish and English Morphosyntax Changes in Bilingual School-Age Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: A 1-Year Longitudinal Study

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  15. Factor structure and longitudinal changes in bilinguals’ oral narratives production: role of language exposure, language-domain proficiency, and transfer

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  16. Informing Design of AI-based Apps for Blind Parents to Teach their Children to Read

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Isabela Figueira, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  17. Bilingual Children Demonstrate Variation Within Shared Narrative Macrostructure

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Alejandro Granados Vargas, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  18. Exploring Assumptions of the Bilingual Delay in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Alejandro Granados Vargas, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  19. Understanding the Microstructure and Macrostructure Narrative Skills of Bilingual Adolescents in Relation to Their Language Experience

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, August 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Cecilia Perez, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  20. Predicting literacy development and risk in Spanish-English bilingual first graders

    Article • Child Language Teaching and Therapy, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  21. Semantic Difficulty for Bilingual Children: Effects of Age, Language Exposure, and Language Ability

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, March 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  22. Sharpening Our Tools: A Systematic Review to Identify Diagnostically Accurate Language Sample Measures

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  23. Identifying Language Disorder in Bilingual Children Using Automatic Speech Recognition

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  24. From a Distance: Comparison of In-Person and Virtual Assessments With Adult–Child Dyads From Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Jissel Anaya, Miriam Munoz, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  25. Can You See My Screen? Virtual Assessment in Speech and Language

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Rebecca Sutherland, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  26. Dual-language engagement: Concerted cultivation of Spanish use among students, teachers, and parents

    Article • Bilingual Research Journal, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  27. Treatment for Anomia in Bilingual Speakers with Progressive Aphasia

    Article • Brain Sciences, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  28. Factors influencing US speech and language therapists’ use of technology for clinical practice

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  29. Contribution of Nonverbal Cognitive Skills on Bilingual Children’s Grammatical Performance: Influence of Exposure, Task Type, and Language of Assessment

    Article • Languages, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  30. That’s hard! Item difficulty and word characteristics for bilinguals with and without developmental language disorder

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  31. Identifying Developmental Language Disorder in School Age Bilinguals: Semantics, Grammar, and Narratives

    Article • Language Assessment Quarterly, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  32. Longitudinal Evidence for Simultaneous Bilingual Language Development With Shifting Language Dominance, and How to Explain It

    Article • Language Learning, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  33. The Utility of an English Semantics Measure for Identifying Developmental Language Disorder in Spanish–English Bilinguals

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Jissel Anaya, Javier Jasso, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  34. Language and Literacy Together: Supporting Grammatical Development in Dual Language Learners With Risk for Language and Learning Difficulties

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  35. A longitudinal investigation of the semantic receptive-expressive gap in Spanish-English bilingual children

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  36. Narrative skills in two languages of Mandarin–English bilingual children

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Ying Hao

  37. Conceptual Scoring and Classification Accuracy of Vocabulary Testing in Bilingual Children

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, January 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Jissel Anaya, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  38. Typicality Effect and Category Structure in Spanish–English Bilingual Children and Adults

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Prarthana Shivabasappa

  39. Preposition accuracy on a sentence repetition task in school age Spanish–English bilinguals

    Article • Journal of Child Language, May 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Casey L. Taliancich-Klinger, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  40. Supporting the home language of bilingual children with developmental disabilities: From knowing to doing

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  41. Where Spanish and English Come Together: A Two Dimensional Bilingual Approach to Clinical Decision Making

    Article • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, March 2016, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  42. Influence of current input-output and age of first exposure on phonological acquisition in early bilingual Spanish-English-speaking kindergarteners

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  43. Effects of Age of English Exposure, Current Input/Output, and grade on bilingual language performance

    Article • Journal of Child Language, February 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Professor Zenzi M. Griffin

  44. Assessment of language impairment in bilingual children using semantic tasks: two languages classify better than one

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  45. Utility of a Language Screening Measure for Predicting Risk for Language Impairment in Bilinguals

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  46. Child Modifiability as a Predictor of Language Abilities in Deaf Children Who Use American Sign Language

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Wolfgang Mann

  47. Dual Language Intervention for Bilinguals at Risk for Language Impairment

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, April 2015, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  48. Discriminant accuracy of a semantics measure with Latino English-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and English–Spanish bilingual children

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  49. Dynamic Assessment of Narrative Ability in English Accurately Identifies Language Impairment in English Language Learners

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  50. Bilingual children’s use of lexical strategies under narrative monologue and dialogue conditions

    Article • Language and Sociocultural Theory, November 2014, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Kai J. Greene, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  51. The Receptive–Expressive Gap in Bilingual Children With and Without Primary Language Impairment

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, November 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  52. Exploring the use of dynamic language assessment with deaf children, who use American Sign Language: Two case studies

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  53. Identification of Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: I. Assessment in English

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  54. Description of multilingual participants who stutter

    Article • Journal of Fluency Disorders, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr Geoffrey A Coalson, Geoffrey Coalson

  55. The relationship of phonological skills to language skills in Spanish–English-speaking bilingual children

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  56. Semantic Convergence in Spanish–English Bilingual Children With Primary Language Impairment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Casey L. Taliancich-Klinger

  57. Semantic Development in Spanish-English Bilingual Children: Effects of Age and Language Experience

    Article • Child Development, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  58. Semantic Deficits in Spanish–English Bilingual Children With Language Impairment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Christine E. Fiestas

  59. Risk for Poor Performance on a Language Screening Measure for Bilingual Preschoolers and Kindergarteners

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, November 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  60. It Takes Two: Improving Assessment Accuracy in Bilingual Children

    Article • ASHA Leader, November 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  61. Creative and Stylistic Devices Employed by Children During a Storybook Narrative Task: A Cross-Cultural Study

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr Maya R Clark, Dr. Christine E. Fiestas, Dr. Brenda K Gorman

  62. Assessing Preschool Dual Language Learners: Traveling a Multiforked Road

    Article • Child Development Perspectives, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  63. Language sample measures and language ability in Spanish-English bilingual kindergarteners

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  64. Bilingualism

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  65. Language Deficits

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  66. Response to Intervention and Dynamic Assessment: Do We Just Appear to Be Speaking the Same Language?

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, April 2009, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  67. Effects on L1 during early acquisition of L2: Speech changes in Spanish at first English contact*

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  68. In Defense of Cookbooks

    Article • Topics in Language Disorders, July 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Aphasia Research Lab, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  69. Foreword

    Article • Topics in Language Disorders, July 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  70. Lost in Translation: Methodological Considerations in Cross-Cultural Research

    Article • Child Development, July 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  71. The role of clinical judgements of modifiability in the diagnosis of language impairment

    Article • Advances in Speech Language Pathology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  72. Cross-language comparisons of maze use in Spanish and English in functionally monolingual and bilingual children

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  73. Academic crime and punishment: Faculty members' perceptions of and responses to plagiarism.

    Article • School Psychology Quarterly, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  74. Dynamic Assessment of Children From Culturally Diverse Backgrounds

    Article • Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, July 2004, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  75. Book Review: Dynamic assessment of young children

    Article • Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, June 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  76. Developing Effective Collaboration Teams in Speech—Language Pathology

    Article • Communication Disorders Quarterly, March 2003, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  77. Comparison of Spanish, English, and Bilingual Children’s Performance Across Semantic Tasks

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, January 2003, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  78. Reducing Test Bias Through Dynamic Assessment of Children's Word Learning Ability

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2001, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Aquiles Iglesias, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  79. Assessment of Semantic Knowledge: Use of Feedback and Clinical Interviewing

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, January 2001, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  80. Measurement of Modifiability in Children From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

    Article • Communication Disorders Quarterly, March 2000, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  81. Dynamic Assessment of Narrative and Expository Discourse

    Article • Topics in Language Disorders, November 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  82. Accommodating cultural differences in narrative style

    Article • Topics in Language Disorders, August 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  83. The Application of Dynamic Methods to Language Assessment

    Article • The Journal of Special Education, October 1992, SAGE Publications

    Dr Aquiles Iglesias, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  84. Cross-Cultural Factors in Communicative Development

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña