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Audiology & Evoked Potentials Laboratory Lab
Developmental Language Lab
Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
Hearing Science Lab
Neurolinguistics Lab
Speech Acoustics and Perception Lab
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Dr. Richard G.
Schwartz, Lab Director
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Dr. Schwartz is a Presidential Professor of Speech and Hearing
Sciences at The Graduate School and the University Center of the
City University of New York. He attended McGill University, received
his M.S. in Speech Pathology from the University of South Florida in
1974, and his Ph.D. in Speech Pathology and Developmental Psychology
from the University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University)
in 1978. Dr. Schwartz has also held academic appointments at the
University of Pittsburgh, Purdue University, Tel Aviv University, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and is currently a
Visiting Professor of Otolaryngology at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine. He has published widely on speech and language
disorders in children in peer-reviewed scientific journals,
contributed numerous chapters in academic textbooks and monographs,
and has served as the editor of the Journal of Speech, Language
and Hearing Research . He is the editor of the forthcoming
Handbook of Child Language Disorders to be published by
Psychology Press. Dr. Schwartz’ research has been supported by
grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health since
1979. He has served as the chair/organizer of numerous national and
international conferences. His current research interests include
speech and language processing in children with Specific Language
Impairment, children with Cochlear Implants, and children with
Autism as well as the neurobiology of childhood language
impairments.
Richard G. Schwartz, Ph.D.
CV (.pdf)
Lab Staff and Students
 Diana
Almodovar received her Bachelor’s Degree in Speech/Language
Pathology from Lehman College, City University of New York and was
awarded an en-route Master’s degree through Queens College. She
is currently a Ph.D. student in the Speech and Hearing program at
the CUNY Graduate Center. Diana is a recipient of the CUNY Graduate
Center Science Fellowship, and has a summer fellowship from the
National Science Foundation Alliance for Graduate Education and
the Professoriate (NSF/AGEP). She is a research assistant in the
Developmental Language Laboratory directed by Dr. Richard
Schwartz. She has also worked as a research assistant at the Speech
and Language Laboratory at the Rose Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, where she participated in research that examined
language development in children with Specific Language Impairment,
and children with histories of Otitis Media with Effusion.
Her current
interests include memory and language processing in children with
Specific Language Impairment. e-mail: dalmodovar@gc.cuny.edu,
dalmodovar@hotmail.com
Dana Battaglia received her Bachelor’s degree in
Speech/Language Pathology from Long Island University, CW Post
Campus and her Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology at St.
John’s University, Queens Campus. She is a certified Speech Language
Pathologist and Teacher of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped in New
York State. In addition, she holds a Certificate of Clinical
Competence from the American Speech-Language and Hearing
association. Dana has worked with the hearing impaired,
developmentally delayed, learning disabled, and autistic
populations. She is the recipient of Who’s Who Among American
Teachers recognition for 2004. Dana has presented information on
a variety of speech & language-related topics at the local, state
and national levels. Her most recent presentation was at the
American Speech Language Hearing Association’s 2005 Annual
Conference, with a poster entitled, "Semantic organization of the
mental lexicon in children with autism."
Dana has worked in a variety of settings, including private and
public schools, private practice, and Early Intervention. She is
currently working as a both a school based clinician and private
practitioner in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, servicing preschool and
school aged children.
Dana presently is a matriculated student in the Ph.D. program at the
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New
York, within the program of Speech and Hearing Sciences. She is a
research assistant in the Developmental Language Laboratory,
directed by Dr. Richard G. Schwartz. Her current research interests
are in language processing, speech perception and semantic priming
in children with autism. E-mail:
dbattaglia@gc.cuny.edu
Daria received her Master’s degree in
communication disorders from William Paterson University. She
currently works as a licensed speech-language pathologist and
teacher of the speech and hearing handicapped in New Jersey. In
addition, she holds a certificate of clinical competency from the
American Speech -Language and Hearing Association. Daria was the
recipient of Who’s Who Among American Teachers recognition for 2005.
She has worked as a speech-language pathologist in a variety of
settings including school-based programs, hospitals and private
practice. Daria also teaches at William Paterson University. She is
currently a Ph.D. student in the Speech and Hearing program at the
CUNY Graduate Center. Daria’s research interests are in memory,
language processing and literacy.
 Talita
Fortunato-Tavares is a dual licensed Speech-Language Pathologist
and Audiologist in Brazil. She received her degrees and
certifications from Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. Her
clinical experiences include servicing children, adolescents and
adults in clinical, hospital and school settings. While in Brazil,
Talita was recipient of a Grant from FAPESP (Fundacao de Amparo a
Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo) and has presented her researches at
the most important Speech Language and Hearing Sciences conferences
in the country.
Talita is a Ph.D. student in the Speech Language and Hearing
Sciences department at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a research
assistant and the Lab Manager of the Developmental Language Lab,
directed by Dr. Richard G. Schwartz. She received University and
Presidential Fellowships at the Graduate Center.
Talita is currently working on research about sentence processing in
children with Specific Language Impairment using an eye tracking
system, a methodology which she hopes to extend to children with
cochlear implants.
E-mail:
tfortunato@gc.cuny.edu
 Christi
Hess received her Bachelor’s from James Madison University in
Communication Sciences and Disorders and her Masters in
Speech-Language Pathology from James Madison as well. Christi’s
experiences as a speech-language pathology student include servicing
pediatric populations in clinical, hospital, and public and private
school settings. Christi is a Ph.D. student in the Speech and
Hearing Sciences department at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a
recipient of the CUNY Graduate Center Science Fellowship. Christi is
currently a research assistant in the Developmental Language Lab
directed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Her primary research interest is
language development and speech perception in infants with cochlear
implants. Christi is excited to collaborate with Beth Israel and New
York Eye and Ear’s cochlear implant program to conduct her research!
email: chess@gc.cuny.edu
 Bernadette
P. Kuntz received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the
State University College at Cortland and her Master’s degree in
Speech-Language Pathology from Long Island University at C.W. Post.
She is certified as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Teacher of
the Speech and Hearing Handicapped from New York State. Additionally,
she holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American
Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Bernadette has worked as
a speech-language pathologist in a variety of settings including
public schools, early intervention centers and private schools.
Presently she works as a Private Practitioner in Westchester County.
Bernadette is currently enrolled in the Speech and Hearing Sciences
Doctoral Program at the Graduate School and University Center of
the City University of New Work. She is a research assistant in
the Developmental Language Lab and is working with Dr.
Richard Schwartz. Her research interests are attention and language
processing in children with Specific Language Impairment. e-mail:
bkuntz@gc.cuny.edu
 Karece
Lopez received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
Speech-Language Pathology from St. John's University. Karece was the
recipient of the Long Island Speech and Hearing Association Joan Fox
Memorial Award of 2006. Her clinical experiences include servicing
children, adolescents and adults in clinical, hospital and private
school settings. In 2001 she presented a poster at the NYSSLHA
Convention titled, "Grammaticality Judgments in past tense in
William’s syndrome: A case study". Karece has also presented at the
2006 ASA Meetings in Providence and Honolulu. Those papers were
"Perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of
Mandarin" and "Factors influencing L2 vowel perception and
production" respectively.
Karece entered the Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Program at the CUNY Graduate Center fall 2007. She is a recipient of
the CUNY Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship. Karece is presently a
research assistant in the Developmental Language Laboratory,
directed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. E-mail:
klopez@gc.cuny.edu
Elizabeth Rodriguez received her
Bachelor’s Degree in Speech/Language Pathology from Lehman College,
The City University of New York. Elizabeth is a former Minority
Access to Research Careers (MARC) scholar. As a MARC student,
Elizabeth presented a poster entitled "Reading and Discrimination
Abilities of Bilingual Spanish/English Speaking Children" at the
2004 ASHA Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annual
Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in
Dallas Texas; and the Louis Strokes Alliance for Minority
Participation (LSAMPS) at Lehman College. Elizabeth is currently a
research assistant in the Developmental Language Laboratory directed
by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Elizabeth is pursing her master’s degree in
Speech/Language Pathology at Lehman College, The City University of
New York.
Her current research interests include memory, word finding
difficulties and language processing in children with Specific
Language Impairment.
Jason Rosas, M.S., CCC-SLP received his
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with Honors from the University of
Pennsylvania and a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from
Columbia University. He is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist
and certified Teacher of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped w/a
Bilingual (Spanish) Extension. Jason works as a Bilingual Speech
Language Pathologist at the Beth Israel Medical Center and has
worked at Long Island University as an Adjunct Professor & Clinical
Supervisor. He has had extensive field experience working with a
variety of bilingual populations from early intervention to
geriatric with specializations in bilingual language disorders,
literacy development, and swallowing and feeding disorders. He has
also received certification in the Orton-Gillingham multi-sensory
approach to reading instruction.
Jason is a matriculated student in the Ph.D.
program at the Graduate School and University Center of the City
University of New York, within the program of Speech and Hearing
Sciences. He is Science Fellow currently working as a research
assistant in the Developmental Language Laboratory, directed by Dr.
Richard G. Schwartz, and the Developmental Neurolinguistics
Laboratory, directed by Dr. Valerie Shafer. His interests are in
language processing, literacy development, and bilingual
language-learning across the life-span. E-mail: jrosas@gc.cuny.edu
Kristen
Russo
Victorino received
her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from
James Madison University, and her Master’s degree in
Speech-Language Pathology from Emerson College.
She completed her clinical fellowship year at the Westchester
Institute for Human Development, a University-Affiliated Program (UAP),
where she participated in the Leadership and Education in
Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Fellowship
program. Kristen is a
licensed and certified speech-language pathologist who has worked in
a variety of clinical settings, including home-based early
intervention, typical and special education preschools, a university
speech and hearing clinic, and a specialized school for children
with autism. Currently,
Kristen works with a diverse pediatric population as a private
practitioner in New York City.
Kristen entered the doctoral program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
full-time in September 2004. She is a recipient of the CUNY Graduate
Center Science Fellowship and works as a research assistant in the
Developmental Language Lab, directed by Richard G.
Schwartz. Her research
interests include language processing in typical and atypical
populations, and language skills in children with autism. Kristen
can be reached by email at KRusso0423@msn.com.
 Liat
Seiger received her Bachelor’s degree in the Communication,
Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders Program at Tel-Aviv
University. She is a certified Speech/Language Pathologist in Israel
where she worked with hearing impaired infants and language impaired
preschoolers. Liat was awarded an en-route Master’s degree through
Queens College, the City University of New York. She is currently a
student in the Ph.D. program of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the
CUNY Graduate Center. She is a recipient of the CUNY Graduate Center
Science Fellowship and works as a research assistant in the
Developmental Language
Laboratory, directed by Dr. Richard G. Schwartz. Liat worked as
a research assistant at the Speech and Language Laboratory at the
Rose Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where
she examined the morphological deficits exhibited by children with
Specific Language Impairment. She presented a poster in the 1999 ASHA Convention in San Francisco, entitled "Standardized Assessment
of Morphology in Children with and without Specific Language Impairment".
Her current interest is in word finding difficulties and lexical
processing in children with Specific Language Impairment. e-mail:
lseiger@gc.cuny.edu, lseiger@hotmail.com
Baila Tropper received her Bachelor’s degree
in Speech Communication Sciences from Touro College and her Master’s
degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Brooklyn College. Baila was
the recipient of the Brooklyn College Speech and Hearing Center
Project Award of 2005. She currently works as a New York State
licensed Speech-Language Pathologist and Teacher of the Speech and
Hearing Handicapped. Additionally, she holds a Certificate of
Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing
Association. Baila’s experiences as a speech-language pathologist
include servicing pediatric and geriatric populations in clinical,
hospital, homecare, and public and private school settings. She
currently works in an outpatient clinic in Brooklyn, specializing in
the treatment of childhood language impairments.
Baila is a Ph.D. student in the Speech and Hearing Sciences
Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a recipient of the CUNY
Graduate Center Science Fellowship. Baila is presently a research
assistant in the Developmental Language Laboratory, directed by Dr.
Richard Schwartz. Her primary research interest is the
neurophysiology of sentence processing in children with specific
language impairment. Baila is currently collaborating with
researchers from the Developmental
Neurolinguistics Laboratory, where she uses
electrophysiological methods to examine the brain mechanisms of
normal and disordered language. e-mail:
btropper@gc.cuny.edu
Melinda Velez received her
undergraduate and graduate training in Speech Language Pathology and
Audiology at Lehman College - The City University of New York where
she received departmental honors. She holds a Master of Arts degree in
Speech Language Pathology and is a licensed Speech-Language
Pathologist in New York State. Melinda has worked with a diverse
population in a variety of settings including school-based programs,
hospitals, out-patient clinics, and private practice. Currently
Melinda is a Speech-Language Pathologist at the Children’s
Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center @ Albert Einstein College of
Medicine. There she conducts formal diagnostic evaluations and
provides treatment for children and adolescents with a variety of
communication disorders and developmental learning disabilities. She
participates as a member of an interdisciplinary evaluation team and
provides consultation services and speech/language screenings for
physicians at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center
in the Bronx. She also supervises graduate interns in speech/language
pathology who are completing clinical requirements. Melinda is
currently enrolled in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Doctoral Program
at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of
New York. She is the recipient of the Mina Rees Fellowship in Doctoral
Studies and a fellowship from the National Science Foundation Alliance
for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NSF/AGEP).
She is a
research assistant in the Developmental Language Lab and her
research interests include lexical processing and metalinguistic
abilities in children and adolescents with Specific Language
Impairment.
Deena Wechsler-Kashi received her
Bachelor and Master Degrees in Communication Disorders at Tel-Aviv
University. She is a certified Audiologist and Speech-Language
Pathologist in Israel where she worked as an Audiologist at Tel-Hashomer
Hospital and as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the Board of
Education, working with children with hearing impairments (MICHA) and
children with language impairments. She served as a Speech-Language
Pathologist supervisor for the Board of Education. Her academic
experience includes lecturing at Wingate College, Beit-Ya’akov College
and supervising clinical practicum at Tel-Aviv University, Israel and
at Lehman College, New-York. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the
Speech and Hearing department at the CUNY Graduate Center. Deena is a
recipient of the CUNY Graduate Center Science Fellowship and the
Graduate Research Grant. She is a research assistant in the
Developmental Language Lab directed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Her
current research is focused on language development in children with
hearing impairments using cochlear implants.
e-mail:
dwechsler-kashi@gc.cuny.edu
Dolors Girbau Visiting Professor
from University Jaume I, Spain. Director of the
Neurogenetics of
Human Communication Lab at UJI.
Melissa Cruz
Lidiya Tornyova
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