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46
Citations
9806
World Ranking
3599
National Ranking
1730

Overview

Elizabeth D. Peña is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research broadly focuses on language development, disorders, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and related educational and psychological assessments.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these, subfields of study are:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Education

The major research topics covered by Elizabeth D. Peña are:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Stuttering Research and Treatment
  • Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments

Elizabeth D. Peña has contributed to several publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Beyond Scores: Using Converging Evidence to Determine Speech and Language Services Eligibility for Dual Language Learners" (2020), published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • "Language ability assessment of Spanish-English bilinguals: Future directions" (2020), published in Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • "Identifying Developmental Language Disorder in School Age Bilinguals: Semantics, Grammar, and Narratives" (2020), published in Language Assessment Quarterly
  • "Longitudinal Evidence for Simultaneous Bilingual Language Development With Shifting Language Dominance, and How to Explain It" (2020), published in Language Learning
  • "Sentence repetition with bilinguals with and without DLD: Differential effects of memory, vocabulary, and exposure" (2020), published in Bilingualism Language and Cognition

Frequent co-authors in Peña's works include:

  • Lisa M. Bedore
  • Nahar Albudoor
  • Amy Pratt
  • Stephanie McMillen
  • Joseph Hin Yan Lam

Elizabeth D. Peña frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Their work also includes contributions to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press, including the title Language Development published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Lost in Translation: Methodological Considerations in Cross‐Cultural Research

    Elizabeth D. Peña

  • Assessment of Bilingual Children for Identification of Language Impairment: Current Findings and Implications for Practice

    Lisa M. Bedore;Elizabeth D. Peña

  • The measure matters: Language dominance profiles across measures in Spanish-English bilingual children.

    Lisa M. Bedore;Elizabeth D. Peña;Connie L. Summers;Karin M. Boerger

  • What You Hear and What You Say: Language Performance in Spanish English Bilinguals

    Thomas M. Bohman;Lisa M. Bedore;Elizabeth D. Peña;Anita Mendez-Perez

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

    Elizabeth D Pena;Aquiles Iglesias;Carol S. Lidz

  • Narrative discourse in bilingual children: language and task effects.

    Christine E. Fiestas;Elizabeth D. Peña

  • The Application of Dynamic Methods to Language Assessment A Nonbiased Procedure

    Elizabeth Peña;Aquiles Iglesias

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

    Lisa M. Bedore;Elizabeth D. Peña;Ronald B. Gillam;Tsung Han Ho

  • Measures of Language Development in Fictional Narratives of Latino Children

    Maria L. Muñoz;Ronald B. Gillam;Elizabeth D. Peña;Annette Gulley-Faehnle

  • Dynamic Assessment of School-Age Children’s Narrative Ability: An Experimental Investigation of Classification Accuracy

    Elizabeth D. Peña;Ronald B. Gillam;Melynn Malek;Roxanna Ruiz-Felter

  • Language Sample Analysis in Spanish-Speaking Children: Methodological Considerations

    Vera F. Gutiérrez-Clellen;M. Adelaida Restrepo;Lisa M Bedore;Elizabeth D Pena

  • Dynamic Assessment: The Model, its Relevance as a Nonbiased Approach, and its Application to Latino American Preschool Children

    Carol S. Lidz;Elizabeth D. Peña

  • English Speech Sound Development in Preschool-Aged Children From Bilingual English–Spanish Environments

    Christina E. Gildersleeve-Neumann;Ellen S. Kester;Barbara L. Davis;Elizabeth D. Peña

  • Story retelling by bilingual children with language impairments and typically developing controls

    Katie E. Squires;Mirza J. Lugo-Neris;Elizabeth D. Peña;Lisa M. Bedore

  • Dynamic assessment of narrative ability in English accurately identifies language impairment in English language learners.

    Elizabeth D. Peña;Ronald B. Gillam;Lisa M. Bedore

  • Conceptual versus monolingual scoring: when does it make a difference?

    Lisa M. Bedore;Elizabeth D. Peña;Melissa García;Celina Cortez

  • Category-generation performance of bilingual children: the influence of condition, category, and language.

    Elizabeth D. Peña;Lisa M. Bedore;Rebecca Zlatic-Giunta

  • Comparison of Spanish, English, and Bilingual Children's Performance Across Semantic Tasks

    Elizabeth D Pena;Lisa M Bedore;Christina Rappazzo

  • The Composition of Normative Groups and Diagnostic Decision Making: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot

    Elizabeth D. Peña;Tammie J. Spaulding;Elena Plante

  • Parent and teacher rating of bilingual language proficiency and language development concerns.

    Lisa M. Bedore;Elizabeth D. Peña;Debbie Joyner;Candace Macken

  • Task Familiarity: Effects on the Test Performance of Puerto Rican and African American Children

    Elizabeth D. Peña;Rosemary Quinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa M. Bedore
Lisa M. Bedore Temple University
Ronald B. Gillam
Ronald B. Gillam Utah State University
Barbara L. Davis
Barbara L. Davis The University of Texas at Austin
Elena Plante
Elena Plante University of Arizona
Maya L. Henry
Maya L. Henry The University of Texas at Austin
Swathi Kiran
Swathi Kiran Boston University
François Grosjean
François Grosjean University of Neuchâtel

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