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María Rosa Brea

Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Bilingual Extension Track

Communicative Sciences and Disorders

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María Rosa Brea, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (ella, she, her/s), is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. Dr. Brea joined NYU Steinhardt in Fall 2017 as the inaugural Director of the Bilingual Extension Track. She graduated with an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cognitive Neural Sciences and a minor in Language Science from the University of South Florida’s Department of Psychology. Prior to obtaining her doctorate, she practiced as a bilingual, certified Speech-Language Therapist in school-based settings and was employed as a Clinical Instructor responsible for training and supervising graduate students with varying levels of expertise.

Dr. Brea is a Dominican, immigrant, bilingual (Español and English) speaker, a critical teacher-scholar-activist whose work has been centered at the intersection of multilingualism and disability. She teaches about and implements culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogical practices in her courses, as these are aligned with her overarching commitments to critical inquiry, reflexive praxis, and the redistribution of power in classroom spaces, in a way that remains representative of her students’ brilliant voices. Her classroom and community collaborations focus on researching the impact of standardized linguistic ideologies in speech-language practices, sustaining variability in languaging in the classroom, and co-envisioning a path for linguistic liberation.

Her dedication to student-centered teaching, social justice activism, and community engagement have received multiple accolades. In 2015, Dr. Brea was selected for the University of South Florida's Provost Community Engaged Faculty Award. In 2020, she received the prestigious NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award. She is also the recipient of the 2021 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)'s Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs.

Selected Publications

Programs

Communicative Sciences and Disorders

The Communicative Sciences and Disorders Program offers rigorous training for students seeking high-quality education in speech-language pathology.

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Courses

Assessment and Intervention for Multilingual Learners in CSD

Integrates foundational information pertaining to bilingual/multilingual aspects of speech and language. Overview of assessment of and evidence-based interventions for multilingual and dual language learners suspected of having oral and written speech/language disabilities. Introduces clinicians to culturally and linguistically responsive assessment/intervention principles and how to access and use resources when working with culturally and linguistically diverse children and adolescents. Fulfills NYS requirements for the Bilingual Extension to TSSLD certificate.
Course #
CSCD-GE 2079
Credits
3
Department
Communicative Sciences and Disorders