Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann is Professor in Speech and Hearing Sciences at Portland State University in Oregon. She is Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. She conducts research on speech development and disorder, assessment, and treatment efficacy for speech sound disorders, with emphases on bilingual Spanish-English populations and childhood apraxia of speech. She runs the Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (MABS) Lab at PSU.
Areas of expertise:
Typical and atypical speech development in monolingual and bilingual Spanish-English children
Assessment and treatment of bilingual children
Childhood apraxia of speech
Phonetics
Cultural competence in communication sciences and disorders
Courses:
SPHR 370 Phonetics and acoustics
SPHR 541 Bilingual topics in communication sciences & disorders
SPHR 540 Multicultural topics in communication sciences & disorders
SPHR 510 Advanced approaches to assessment & intervention for bilinguals, children with SSDs & CAS