Current Ph.D. Students
Jennifer DiLallo
Jennifer DiLallo graduated with a M.S. in Communication Disorders with a Multilingual / Multicultural Certificate (as a PrISMS student) from ASU in Spring 2019. Prior to beginning her graduate studies, she completed an English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) through Fulbright in Brazil and also taught English to middle schoolers in Ecuador through WorldTeach. Jennifer is proficient in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish and has a particular interest in working with Latino/a populations in speech-language pathology. Her research focus is the grammatical development of bilingual adolescents with language impairment. She is a current recipient of the RIDDLS grant and member of the BiLL lab under the direction of Dr. Restrepo
DeAnne Hunter
DeAnne Hunter earned her Masters in linguistics at San Diego State University before joining the doctoral program in Speech and Hearing Sciences in Fall 2019. Under the mentorship of Dr. Shelley Gray and supported by the RIDDLs interdisciplinary doctoral training program, her research interests are fairly evenly split between the genetic and neurocognitive underpinnings of dyslexia and using knowledge gained from these investigations to develop intervention for diverse populations with dyslexia, specifically children who are bilingual and English-Language Learners (ELLs)
Melissa Pierce