CSD Colloquium Spring 2025

Tuesday April 29 from 5-6:15PM [ZOOM - register here]

Carlos Irizarry-Pérez, University of New Mexico

Utilizing linguistic approaches to promote generalization of intervention targets for bilingual children with phonological disorders

Abstract: This presentation will discuss how to select intervention targets for bilingual children with phonological disorders using shared sounds across languages and a complexity approach to target selection. Bilingual children with speech sound disorders will need the ability to accurately produce sounds in both languages to successfully communicate across language settings. Utilizing shared sounds across languages as targets can promote cross-language generalization, whereas complex targets may promote generalization to less complex sounds. Using both principles may maximize generalization of skills. This target selection approach can be used regardless of the linguistic skills of the clinician. Examples will be given utilizing a case study of a Spanish-English bilingual child with a phonological disorder from assessment to post-intervention.

Bio: Carlos Irizarry Pérez is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. He received his PhD in Communication Disorders from the University of Texas at Austin and holds a certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP). His research focuses on the equitable intervention for multilingual children with speech sound disorders.  Dr. Irizarry Pérez has published multiple peer-reviewed articles and presented nationally in the areas of bilingualism and speech sound disorders, teaches graduate courses on speech sound disorders, bilingualism, and bilingual assessment and intervention, and identifies as a bilingual, Latino individual himself.