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Aquiles Iglesias

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Aquiles Iglesias, PhD


Founding Director
Professor Emeritus
Unidel Katherine Esterly Chair Emeritus of Health Sciences
aquiles@udel.edu
 

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1978
  • M.S., Southern Illinois University, 1972
  • B.S., Southern Illinois University, 1970
     

Research Interests

  • Language development in Dual Language Learners
  • Assessment of language disorders in bilingual children

 

Publications

  • Pace, A., Curran, M., Owen Van Horne, A., de Villiers, J., Iglesias, A., Golinkoff, R.M., Wilson, M., Hirsh-Pasek, K. (under review).  Identifying preschool children at risk for developmental language disorders using the Quick Interactive Language Screener.
  • Rojas, R., Heilman, J., Iglesias, A., Miller, J. (under review). Story elicitation method and bilingual narrative language production: To tell or to retell. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
  • Su, P.L., Rojas, R., & Iglesias (in press). Dual Language Profiles in Spanish-Speaking English Learners. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research.
  • Fagan, J., Widfeuer, R., Iglesias, A. (2022). Cognitive stimulation during early childhood and child vocabulary at age 9.  Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-02212-x
  • Iglesias, A. & Rojas, R. (2022).  Bilingual language development of English Learners: Estimating the growth of two languages.  In B.A. Goldstein (ED.), Bilingual language development and disorders in Spanish-English speakers, 3rd Edition. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing Co., pp 9-43
  • Castilla-Earls, A., Francis, D. & Iglesias, A. (2022). The complex role of utterance length on grammaticality: Multivariate Multi-Level analysis of English and Spanish utterances of first grade English-Learners.  Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research, 65(1):238-252. 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00464
  • Su, P. L., Rojas, R., & Iglesias, A. (2021, October 2). Dual Language Profiles in Spanish-Speaking English Learners. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cp6ey (also in press JSLHR)
  • Gatlin-Marsh, B., Peña, E.D., Bedore, L.M., Simon-Cerejido, G., Iglesias, A. (2021). English BESA Morphosyntax Performance among Spanish-English Bilinguals who Use African American English.  Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 64, 3826-3842. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00737
  • De Villiers, J., Iglesias, A., Golinkoff, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Wilson, M. & Nandakumar, R. (2021).  Assessing Dual Language Learners of Spanish and English: Development of the QUILS:ES.  Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología, 41(4): 183-196.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2020.11.001
  • Luo, R., Pace, A.  Levine, D., Iglesias, A., de Villiers, J., Golinkoff, R.M.,   Wilson MS & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2021). Home literacy environment and existing knowledge mediate the link between socioeconomic status and language learning skills in Dual Language Learners. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 55, 1-14.
  • Iglesias, A., Rojas, R. & Goldstein, B.A. (2021). Language and dialectal variations. In J. Bernthal and N. Bankson (Eds.),  Articulation and Phonological Disorders. Saddle River (NJ): Allyn Bacon.
  • Iglesias, A., Rojas, R. & Goldstein, B. A. (2021).  Issues of cultural and linguistic diversity.  In Paul, R. & Schoen Simmons, E. (Eds.), Introduction to clinical methods in communication disorders, 4th Edition, pp 265-284. Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
  • Pace, A., Luo, R., Levine, D., Iglesias, A., de Villiers, J., Golinkoff, R.M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Wilson, M.S. (2020). Within and across language predictors of word learning processes in Dual Language Learners. Child Development.
  • Simon-Cerejido, G., Bedore, L.M., Peña, E. D., & Iglesias, A. (2020). Insights into category sorting flexibility in bilingual children: Results of a cognitive lab study. AJSLP, 29, 1152-1161.
  • Levine, D., Pace, A., Luo, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., de Villiers, J., Iglesias, A., & Wilson, M. S. (2020). Evaluating socioeconomic gaps in preschoolers’ vocabulary, syntax, and language process skills with the Quick Interactive Language Screener (QUILS). Early Childhood Research Quarterly,50, 114-128.
  • Castilla-Earls, A., Francis, D., Iglesias, A. & Davidson, K. (2019). The impact of the Spanish-to-English proficiency shift on the grammaticality of English Learners, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62: 1739-1754.
  • Aravind, A., de Villiers, J., Pace, A., Valentine, A., Golinkoff, R., Hirsch-Pasek, K., Iglesias, A., Wilson, M.S. (2018). Fast mapping word meanings across trials: Young children forget all but their first guess. Cognition, 177, 177-188.

Honors, Awards & Major Offices Held

  • ASHA Leader Outstanding Contribution Award (Speech-Language Pathology), 2010. (“Making a case for language sampling”)
  • Honors, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2009
  • Alumni Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Iowa, 2006
  • Certificate of Recognition for Special Contribution in Multicultural Affairs, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1994.
  • Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1988
  • “The Acquisition of Spanish:  Phonology,” American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation and Psi Iota Xi Research Award, 1983.

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