Ellen Stubbe Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Dr. Kester earned her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from The University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology and her Bachelor's degree in Spanish at The University of Texas at Austin. She has provided bilingual Spanish/English speech-language services in schools, hospitals, and early intervention settings. Her research focus is on the acquisition of semantic language skills in bilingual children, with emphasis on assessment practices for the bilingual population. She has performed workshops and training seminars, and has presented at conferences both nationally and internationally. Dr. Kester teaches courses in language development, assessment and intervention of language disorders, early childhood intervention, and measurement at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Brenda K. Gorman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Dr. Gorman earned her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in language and literacy development and cross-language transfer of skills of bilingual children. She completed her Master's degree at the University of Texas at Austin in the Bilingual/Multicultural Speech-Language Pathology program and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Latin American Studies. Dr. Gorman has worked as a bilingual Spanish/English speech-language pathologist in New York City, California, and Texas in a wide variety of settings including school districts, Head Start centers, home-based early intervention, and private practices. She is an assistant professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Kara Anderson, M.A., CCC-SLP

Kara earned her master's degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas.  She focused her studies on language functions in the right brain in the Spanish-speaking population.  She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Communication Sciences and Disorders.  Kara's favorite projects include developing creative literature-based materials for bilingual children.  She has worked with the bilingual population in Early Childhood Intervention, public schools and rehabilitation centers.

Kara was on full-time with Bilinguistics for three years. She now serves in a consultative role as she is pursuing her doctorate in Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Texas--Dallas.

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Scott Prath, M.A., CCC-SLP

Scott completed his master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin in Communication Sciences and Disorders.  He also completed his bachelor’s degrees at the University of Texas in Spanish and Communication Sciences and Disorders.   His studies focused on second language acquisition and speech productions in Spanish-speaking children with cochlear implants.  He has presented to Speech-Language Pathologists internationally and translates for the Spanish-speaking community in Austin.

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Anne Duff, M.A., CCC-SLP

Anne completed her master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin in Communication Sciences and Disorders.  During graduate school she participated in the bilingual clinical training program conducting research on bilingual populations and also studied the influence of cultural characteristics of the Spanish-speaking community on the evaluation and treatment of stuttering.  After finishing her bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas, Anne spent a year in Madrid, Spain improving her Spanish and consuming tapas.  She also spent Summer 2007 in Honduras.  Her current interests include studying the effects of multi-cultural influences on evaluation and treatment processes.

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May-Ling Castillo Love, M.A., CF-SLP

May-Ling earned her master’s degree in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from Michigan State University. During graduate school, she re-established a group called Organización de Logopedia y Audiologia (OLA) for undergraduate and graduate students in bilingual speech-language pathology. Before graduate school, May-Ling earned her bachelor’s degree in public relations from the University of Florida. She is originally from Nicaragua and grew up in Miami, FL where she experienced a variety of Latin American dialects on a daily basis. One of her interests is working within cultural parameters in the Hispanic population to help ensure proper assessment and treatment of English/Spanish bilingual children.

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Mary Bauman, M.S., CF-SLP

Mary earned her master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Texas Christian University in the bilingual track. She completed her bachelor’s degrees in both Spanish and Speech-Language Pathology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She traveled to Spain for a summer in high school and then again for a semester before finishing her undergraduate studies. Mary has worked as a graduate research assistant at TCU analyzing the stuttering of Spanish-speaking children from Puerto Rico under Jennifer Watson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. Other areas of interest include Spanish and English syntax and phonology, as well as the cross-linguistic influences on bilingual individuals.

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Adrianne Arrieta-Morales M.A., CCC-SLP

Adrianne earned both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia and is also a Spanish speaker. Her focus in Graduate school was on Second Language Acquisition as well as Spanish speech development in children with cochlear implants. Her current areas of interest include multicultural influences to account for when assessing bilingual Spanish/English children and exploring types of language errors produced by Spanish speaking children with a language disorder.

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Gail Goodrich Totten, M.A., CCC-SLP

Gail’s undergraduate degree is from Rice University, and she taught English, Spanish and remedial reading at the secondary and community college levels in Texas and the Republic of Panamá, where she lived for 26 years. After earning her master’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Texas at Austin, she worked as a bilingual speech-language pathologist for the Austin Independent School District and was a clinical supervisor at the UT Speech and Hearing Center. Gail retired in June 2008 from Austin ISD, having spent the last two years as the Coordinator for Speech/Language Services. She has presented at the state, national and international levels, and in Central America has participated in workshops and consultations with therapists there, and been part of a medical team performing craniofacial surgery.

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