Maria Kapantzoglou, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Portland State University (PSU) and a certified trilingual speech-language pathologist. Her research focuses on the assessment of language skills in bilingual children with and without primary language impairment. She has a Master in Measurement, Statistics and Methodological Study, and she has worked in federally funded projects to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate assessment tools for Spanish-English speaking children. She has worked with bilingual children in four different countries and in three languages: English, Spanish and Greek. At PSU, she teaches courses on speech and language disorders, and supervises graduate students in the bilingual concentration.
Areas of Expertise:
Bilingual Language Assessment
Dynamic Assessment
Language Acquisition in Children
Courses:
SPHR 464 Speech Sound Disorders in Children
SPHR 510 Assessment and Intervention for Bilinguals
SPHR 560 Research Methods in Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
SPHR 584 Assessment and Treatment of Language Disorders: Birth to 5