Bedore received a master of arts in communicative disorders from San Diego University and earned her Ph.D. in Audiology and Speech Sciences at Purdue University. Since 1999, Bedore has served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is the graduate advisor and program director for the master of arts in speech language pathology program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Bedore’s research expertise is in morphology and phonology in Spanish-English bilingual children with language impairments. She is nationally recognized for her work in developing instruments to detect language disorders in bilingual children, and she has served as principal or co-principal investigator on six major grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; she also has served as project director or co-director on nine grants from the Department of Education.
She has published more than 60 articles in leading journals such as the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; in addition, she has published 17 book chapters and a book.
As chair, Bedore will oversee the department’s programs in speech-language-hearing and communications sciences and disorders, as well as the department’s Speech-Language-Hearing Center, which provides a wide range of services to people of all ages with disorders of communication.
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