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Barbara Rodriguez, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor
brodrig@unm.edu

Dr. Rodriguez received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She has extensive clinical experience in early intervention, public school and medical settings. Her teaching interests center on language intervention and assessment and on the application of research to clinical practice. Dr. Rodriguez's research focuses on exploring the cultural variability of parental beliefs, parental involvement in intervention and the processes of bilingual language and literacy acquisition. She is currently collaborating with colleagues from the Pennsylvania State University on two NIH-funded projects. The primary aim of the first investigation is to examine the language and literacy development of bilingual preschool children. The goal of the second investigation is to develop a valid and reliable measure to identify phonological disorder in bilingual children and to distinguish disorder from typical phonological variation in speakers of Mexican, Cuban and Peurto Rican Spanish dialects.

Recent Publications

Hammer, C., Rodriguez, B., & Miccio, A. (scheduled to appear October 2006). Puerto Rican Mothers' child rearing and education beliefs and home literacy practices. Language, Speech, Hearing Sciences in the Schools.

Patterson, J. & Rodriguez, B. (2005). Designing assessments for multilingual children. In Ball, M.J. (Ed.). Clinical sociolinguistics. (pp. 230 - 241). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Hammer, C., Miccio, A., & Rodriguez, B. (2004). Bilingual language acquisition and the child socialization process. In Goldstein, B. (Ed.). Bilingual language development and disorders in Spanish-English speakers (pp. 21 - 50). Blatimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.