Kimberly Crespo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

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Boston University

Kimberly Crespo (she/her/ella) is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Bilingual Learning Lab (est. 2022). She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Boston University. She is also affiliate faculty in Wheelock College of Education & Human Development’s Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being. Dr. Crespo earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her scholarly interests include investigating interactions between input factors (i.e., dual language input; speaker variability), cognitive factors (i.e., attention and memory) and language ability that impact how learners perceive and learn language patterns. Her research includes monolingual and bilingual children and adults with typical and atypical language abilities from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Using a variety of experimental methods, the goal of her work is to identify aspects of the bilingual environment that may have consequences for how language and cognition develop and operate. She also seeks to better understand the developmental trajectory of language impairment in bilingual children.

Dr. Crespo teaches the undergraduate course SAR SH531 Introduction to Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences. She developed and teaches SAR SH725: Bilingual Considerations in Language Assessment and Intervention for BU’s Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology Program. She also developed and teaches SAR SH810: Doctoral Seminar, a course focused on professional development and uncovering the “hidden curriculum” of academia for junior PhD students.