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Dr. Patterson has a bachelor's degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara , a master's degree in Communicative Disorders from the University of New Mexico , and a doctoral degree in Educational Linguistics from the University of New Mexico in 1992. Her research, teaching, and clinical expertise are in child language development and disorders. Previous clinical experience includes providing assessment and intervention services to middle school students in Albuquerque Public Schools, participating in interdisciplinary team evaluations for infants, toddlers, and preschool children and their families, and supervising graduate students at the UNM Speech, Language and Hearing Center . Her major research focus is language development and assessment of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

Recent Publications

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

Patterson, J. & Pearson, B. (2004). Bilingual Lexical Development: Influences, Contexts, and Processes . In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Bilingual Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers. (77 - 104). Baltimore, MD : Brookes.

Patterson, J. (2004). Comparing bilingual and monolingual toddlers' expressive vocabulary size: Revisiting Rescorla and Achenbach (2002). Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 47, 1213 - 1215.