Solaman Cooperson Ph.D.
Professor
Communication Sciences & Disorders
About Solaman Cooperson
Dr. Cooperson has experience working as a speech-language pathologist with children and adolescents who have developmental disabilities. As a doctoral student on the Academic Clinical Research Training (ACRT) grant at the University of Texas at Austin, he completed research, teaching, and clinical supervision rotations. Dr. Cooperson's work as part of this grant focused on increasing knowledge of language development and disorders in Spanish-English bilinguals. At the University of Redlands, he teaches coursework in speech sound development and disorders, phonetics, speech science, and language science. He also supervises clinical services for children with speech sound disorders. His research interests have focused on speech sound development in bilingual children, the relationship of speech sound development to language development, and the use of structural priming as a view into the processes involved in language production.
Education
- Ph.D., Communicative Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas
- M.S., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Pennsylvania State University
- B.A., Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Publications
Cooperson, S. J., & Taliancich-Klinger, C. L. (2022). Priming of prepositional phrases and direct objects in Spanish-speaking children. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 7(5), 1539-1550.
Bedore, L.M. & Cooperson, S.J. (2022). Morphosyntactic development. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Bilingual language development and disorders in Spanish-English speakers third edition. Brookes Publishing.
Osborn, L. & Cooperson, S. (2021, November). Outcomes from a Community-based Oral Narrative Program for At-Risk School-Age Children. Poster presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, DC.
Bedore, L. M., Klinger, C. T., & Cooperson, S. J. (2020). Clinical decision making for a bilingual child: Using converging information. Speech-language pathology casebook (p. 11). Georg Thieme Verlag.
Taliancich-Klinger, C. & Cooperson, S.J. (2017). Clinical supervision in a medical setting: A preliminary study about the practices and beliefs of expert and novice clinician supervisors Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2, 8-16.
Ruiz-Felter, R., Cooperson, S. J., Bedore, L. M. and Peña, E. D. (2016). Influence of current input–output and age of first exposure on phonological acquisition in early bilingual Spanish–English-speaking kindergarteners. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 51, 368-383.
Awards and Honors
Meritorious Poster Submission at the 2012 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.