Dr. Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann 

Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann is Professor and Chair in Speech and Hearing Sciences at Portland State University in Oregon. She is Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. She conducts research on speech development and disorder, assessment, and treatment efficacy for speech sound disorders, with emphases on bilingual Spanish-English populations and childhood apraxia of speech. She runs the Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (MABS) Lab at PSU.

Areas of Expertise

• Typical and atypical speech development in monolingual and bilingual Spanish-English children

• Assessment and treatment of bilingual children

• Childhood apraxia of speech

• Clinical Phonetics

• Cultural competence in communication sciences and disorders

Education

• B.A. German, Minor English Literature, Oregon State University

• M.S. Speech-Language Pathology, University of Texas at Austin

• Ph.D. Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Texas at Austin