Solaman Cooperson Ph.D.
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
Professional Background
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.
Affiliations
- Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Member of ASHA SIG 14, Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
Publications
Cooperson, S.J., Bedore, L.M., and Peña, E.D. (2013). The relationship of phonological skills to language skills in Spanish-English-speaking bilingual children. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 27, 371-389.
Cooperson, S., Bedore, L., and Peña, E. (2012, November). Effect of Language Impairment on Cross-Linguistic Influence in Bilingual Children. Poster presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.
Cooperson, S.J. and Griffin, Z.M. (2012, July). Slips of the tongue in Bilingual Spanish-English Speakers. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, New York, NY.
Bedore, L.M., Cooperson, S.J., and Boerger, K.M. (2011). Morphosyntactic Development. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Bilingual Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers Second Edition. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.
Cooperson, S., Bedore, L., and Peña, E. (2010, June). Relationships between Phonological Skills and Language Skills in Bilingual Children at Risk for Language Impairment. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Miccio, A.W., Cooperson, S., and Hammer, C.S. (2004, November). Phonotactics of Sequential and Simultaneous Spanish and English Phonological Acquisition. Poster presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Areas of Expertise
- Phonological development and disorders; language science; phonological and grammatical development in bilingual children
Awards and service
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Meritorious Poster Submission at the 2012 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.
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Donald D. Harrington Doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin