Christine E. Fiestas, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
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EDUCATION______
Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, Communication Sciences and Disorders, December, 2008. The Dynamic Assessment of Narratives: A Bilingual Study
M.A.
The University of Texas at Austin, Communication Sciences and Disorders, May
2001. Specialization in multicultural and bilingual Speech-Language Pathology
B.A.
The University of Vermont, Biochemistry and French, 1987
RESEARCH_EXPERIENCE______
P.I. American Speech-Language Hearing Association Multicultural
Activities Project Award: Training SLPs in the Pacific: Assessment Tool for Hawaiian Creole 8/26/2013-8/25/2014
Research Asssociate, R21/R33: Language and Literacy Intervention for Spanish-English
Bilingual Children with SLI, PI Dr. Lisa Bedore, Dr. Elizabeth Peña and Dr. Sharon Vaughn, September 2010-June 2011.
Research Associate, R21: Development of Phenotype Tools for Identification
of Language Impairment in Bilingual Children, PI- Dr. Elizabeth Peña and Dr.
Lisa Bedore, The University of Texas at Austin, January 2009-May, 2010
Communication Specialist, The Dynamic Assessment of Narrative Intervention in CLD Children, PI-Dr. Elizabeth Peña, August, 2003-May, 2004
Research Assistant, Bilingual Language Assessment Tools, Dr. Elizabeth Peña, The
University of Texas at Austin, August 2000-April 2003
Research Assistant, U01 DC04562: Comparison of Language Intervention Programs , PI
Dr. Ronald Gillam, The University of Texas at Austin, September 2002- May, 2003.
Research Associate, The HPGAXIS Response to Stress, PI Dr. Daniel Spratt,
Neuroendorine Research Department, The Maine Medical Center Research Institute, January 1996-July, 1999.
Research Assistant, Endocrine Responses to Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery, PI Dr. Daniel Spratt, The Maine Medical Research Institute, February 1989-January, 1996.
TEACHING______
Assistant Professor: Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Department of Clinical and Health Sciences, Communication Sciences and Disorders Program
Courses (Graduate and undergraduate level)
Diagnostics in Speech-Language Pathology (Fall 2014)
Child Language Disorders (Fall 2014)
Speech Pathology Clinical Practicum (Fall 2014)
Assistant Professor: University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Department of Communication
Sciences and Disorders, June 2011-July 2014
Courses (Graduate level)
Disorders of Fluency (Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
Graduate Student Research (Fall, Spring and Summer 2012, Spring 2013, Spring
2014)
Child Language Disorders (Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
Assessment of Child Language Disorders (Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
Speech Pathology Clinic 616 (Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
Speech Pathology Clinic 716 (Summer 2011, Spring and Summer 2012, Spring
2014)
Directed Study Seminar (Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014)
Weekly Clinical Practicum Colloquium (Fall 2011 and Spring 2012)
Clinical Methods (Summer 2011)
Instructor: Texas State University, Department of Communication Disorders, August 2007-May 2008.
Courses (Undergraduate level)
Assessment and Intervention for Child Language Disorders (Spring 2008)
Child Language Development (Fall 2007)
An Introduction to Communication Disorders (Fall 2007, Spring 2008)
Instructor: The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 2006
Courses
Child Speech and Language Disorders (Summer 2006)
Teaching Assistant: The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 2005-2006
Courses
Adult Neurogenic Disorders (Spring 2006)
Child Speech and Language Disorders (Summer 2005)
The Acquisition of Communication Abilities in Children (Spring 2005)
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE______
Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor: The University of Hawai’i Speech and Hearing Clinic, The University of Hawai’i at Manoa 6/2011-7/2014 (0.25 FTE).
Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor: Texas A&M University-Kingsville 8/2014-present.
Speech-Language Pathologist: UCERA, The University of Hawai’i Speech and Hearing Clinic Faculty Practice, Honolulu, Hawai’i, 8/2012-7/2014
Interim Clinic Manager: The University of Hawai’i Speech and Hearing Clinic, The University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 6/2011-4/2012.
Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor: Bilingual Language Screening and Diagnostic Teams, The University of Texas at Austin, 1/2009-6/2011.
Speech-Language Pathology Academic and Clinical Instructor: Texas State University, 8/2007-6/2008.
Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist: Copperfield Elementary School, Pflugerville
ISD, Texas 8/2006-6/2007
Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist: Any Baby Can Family Resource Center,
Austin, Texas 4/2003-7/2006
Speech-Language Pathologist Clinical Fellow: Any Baby Can Family Resource Center, Austin, Texas 4/2002-3/2003
Graduate Speech-Language Pathologist Clinician: University of Texas Speech and Hearing Center 1/2000-12/2001
PUBLICATIONS______
Peña, E.D., Bedore, L.M. & Fiestas, C.E. (2013). Development of bilingual semantic
norms: Can two be one? In Gathercole, V.M. (Ed.) Bilingual Assessment
Solutions. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Sheng, L., Bedore, L. M., Peña, E. D. and Fiestas, C. (2012), Semantic Development inSpanish–English Bilingual Children: Effects of Age and Language Experience. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12015
Sheng, L., Peña, E.D., Bedore, L.M. & Fiestas, C.E.(2012). Semantic deficits inSpanish-English bilingual children with language impairment.Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 55, 1-15.
Gorman, B.K., Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E. Clark, M., Moyle, B. (2011). Creative and stylistic devices in storybook narratives: A cross-cultural study. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 42, 167 - 181
Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E. D.,Bedore, L. M. & Sheng, L. (In preparation). Definitional
skillsof bilingual school-aged children with language impairment.
Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E. D., & Bedore, L. M. (In preparation). The developing
definitional skills of bilingual middle-elementary school-aged children with and without language impairment: The contribution of language exposure.
Peña, E.D. & Fiestas, C. E. (2009). Talking across cultures in early intervention:
Finding common ground to meet children’s communication needs. Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations 16(20), 79-85.
Bedore, L. M., Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E. D. (2006) Cross language comparisons of
language use in Spanish and English of functionally bilingual and monolingual
children, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Vol 9(3), 233-247.
Peña, E. D., Gillam, R. B., Malek, M. M., Ruiz-Felter, R., Resendiz, M., Fiestas, C.
E., & Sabel, T. (2006). Dynamic assessment of school-age children’s narrative ability: An cxperimental investigation of classification accuracy, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 49, 1037-1057.
Fiestas, C. E., & Peña, E. (2004) Narrative discourse in bilingual children: Task and language effects. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 35, 155-166.
Fiestas, C. E., Bedore, L. M., Nagy, V., & Peña, E. (2003). Use of mazes in the
language samples of bilingual children. Conference proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Bilingualism.
Spratt DI, Longcope C, Bigos ST, Cox P and Wilbur-Welling C.*(1992). Differential
changes in serum concentrations of adrenal derived androgens (in relation to cortisol) in acute illness. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 76:1542-1419.
* denotes Fiestas, C. formerly known as Wilbur-Welling C.
PRESENTATIONS______
Elkin, M. & Fiestas, C. E. (April, 2014). The roles and responsibilities of the Speech-Language Pathologist in selecting their client’s AAC system. The Hawai’i Speech-Language Hearing Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI.
Fiestas, C. E., Dunn, H. and Brown, J. (November, 2013). Right-to-left reading directionality in Japanese: Implications for language testing. The American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.
Fiestas, C. E. (October 2012). Talking across cultures in early intervention: Findingcommon ground with a focus on Latino families. IMUA Family Services Conference, Kahului, Maui (Invited presentation).
Fiestas, C. & Hirohata, E. (February, 2012). Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: Disorders of Communication. Internal Medicine Grand Rounds. Queens Hospital, Honolulu, HI (invited presentation).
Fiestas, C. E. (June 2012). Using non-standardized language measures to assess childrenwho are culturally and linguistically diverse in the Hawai’i Department of Education. Speech-Language Pathology Leadership Group, Honolulu, HI (Invited presentation).
Fiestas, C. E. (October 2011). The dynamic assessment of children’s language status:Determining language disorder from language difference in bilingual children. A scholarly and cultural exchange between Paris and Hawai’i. University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (Invited presentation).
Fiestas, C. E., Bedore, L. M., Peña, E. D. & Sheng, L. (2011, November). The definitional skills of bilingual children: Effects of Age and Experience. The American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.
Gorman, B., Patton Terry, N., Bingham, G., Fiestas, C. E. (2011, November). Preschoolers need their siesta: A Spanish adaptation of the NAP. The American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.
Sheng, L., Bedore, L., Peña, E., Fiestas, C. (2011, November). Semantic development in Spanish-English bilingual children. The American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.
Fiestas, C., Bedore, L., Peña, E., Sheng, L., (2011, November). The definitional skills ofbilingual children: Age and language experience. The American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.
Fiestas, C. E., Pena, E. D., Bedore, L. M. and Sheng, L. (2010, November)
The definitional skills of bilingual children with language impairment. The American Speech Language and HearingAssociation, Philadelphia, PA.
Fiestas, C. E. (2009, November). Usinglanguage sample analysis as evidence in the
assessment process of diverse learners. Pflugerville ISD SLP In-service presentation, Pflugerville, Texas.
Fiestas, C. E. (2009, May). The Dynamic Assessment of narratives: A bilingual
study. Research Colloquium, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin.
Gillam, R. Fiestas, C., Peña, E., Resendiz, M., & Bedore, L. (2008, November).
Dynamic assessment of narratives: Improving assessment accuracy in diverse learners. Presentation: The American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.
Fiestas, C. E. (2007). Assessing and remediating reading comprehension problems for
the bilingual learner with language impairment. Guest lecturer for Reading Disorders, Department of Psychology, TexasStateUniversity.
Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E. D., Gillam, R. B. (2006, June). Dynamic assessment of
narratives: Language of intervention for bilingual Children. Poster presentation
at the annual meeting of the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin.
Fiestas, C. E. (2005, June). Considerations for the language of intervention for bilingual
children with language impairment. Research Symposium, Department of Logopedics, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Fiestas, C. E. (2005, March). Different stories? A look at differences in bilingual
children’s narrative skills across languages. Research Colloquium, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin.
Fiestas, C. E., Aghara, R. G., Jacks, A. P., Fleming, V. B. (January, 2004).
Communication makes the world go ‘round. Recruitment presentation: Del Valle High School, Del Valle, TX.
Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E., Gorman, B., & Gillam, R. (2003, November). Goal planning
devices and internal states in bilingual children's narratives. Student technical presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association.
Gorman, B., Gillam, R., Peña, E., Fiestas, C. E., & Clark, M. (2003, November).
Creative & stylistic narrative devices: A cross-cultural study. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association.
Fiestas, C. E., Bedore, L. M., Nagy, V., & Peña, E. (May, 2003). Use of Mazes in theNarrative Language Samples of Bilingual Children. Poster presentation at the Fourth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Tempe, Arizona.
Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E., Gorman, B., & Gillam, R (2003, February) The inclusion of goal planning and internal states in the narratives of bilingual children. Poster presentation at the ThirdAnnual Meeting of the Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, Texas.
Fiestas, C. E., and Peña, E. (2001, February) Narrative stimuli: A comparison of story
complexity in Bilingual Spanish/English speaking elementary school aged children.Posterpresentation at the Second Annual Meeting of the Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, Texas.
Mayo SW, Longcope C, Vary CPH, Fiestas C, Nye L, Spratt DI. (June 1997).
Peripheral aromatase activity and expression increases during major illness. Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, Minneapolis, Minn.
Stone M.E., Fiestas C., Goodale K., Spratt D.I. (June 1996). Endocrine responses are similar in both critical illness and major surgery in humans and rats. Tenth International Congress of Endocrinology, WashingtonD.C.
Spratt D.I., Bigos S.T., Wilbur-Welling C.,* Goodale K.(June 1991). Dilutional effects on serum levels of Cortisol, Thyroxine and Testosterone during coronary artery bypass surgery. Seventy-third Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, Washington, D.C.
Spratt D.I, Bigos S.T., Wilbur-Welling C.*, Cox P. (June 1990). Relationship of
Hypogonadotropism to serum cortisol, Prolactin and Growth Hormone Concentrations in critically ill patients. Seventy-second Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society.
Spratt D.I., Wilbur-Welling C.*, Bigos S.T. (1990). Relation of serum Cortisol (F) andProlactin (PRL) levels to the transient Hypogonadism of acute illness. Clin Res 38:795.
* denotes Fiestas, C. formerly known as Wilbur-Welling C.
GRANTS______
Fiestas, C. E. (P.I.) American Speech-Language Hearing Association Multicultural
Activities Project Award. Title: Training SLPs in the Pacific: Assessment Tool for Hawaii Creole 8/26/2013-8/25/2014 (Award 9,349.00).
NIH Travel Grant to present research at the Symposium for Research on Child Language Development, Spring 2006 (Award $500).
Empress Zedler Research Award, Texas Speech Language and Hearing Association and Tina Bangs Research Award, Texas Speech, Language and Hearing Association, 2005 (Combined award $1,000).
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS______
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas-
Austin Outstanding Research Paper of the Year, 2007 for Bedore, L. M., Fiestas, C. E., Peña, E. D.(2006) Cross language comparisons of language use in Spanish and English of functionally bilingual and monolingual children, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Vol 9(3), 233-247.
Jennifer Sparrgrove Continuing Education Fellowship, The University of Texas at
Austin, 2005-2006 (Award $16,650).
The American Association of University Women Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2005-2006 (Award $5,000).
David Bruton Continuing Education Fellowship, The University of Texas of Austin,
2003-2004 (Award $2,000).
Student Fellowship Award, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, US
Department of Education, Multicultural Leadership Training Grant (PI-Dr. Thomas Marquardt) 2001-2004 (Award $19,200 per annum).
Student Fellowship Travel Award, The Department of Education Multicultural
Training Grant to attend a graduate seminar in Gothenburg, Sweden June, 2005. (Award $2,000).
Departmental Research Dissertation Grant Award, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 2003-2004 (Award $1,000).
Member Elect of The Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, The University of Texas Chapter,
2001.
The Katherine Barrows Scholarship Award, 1983-1987 (Award $1,000 per annum).
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS______
Chair
Comparing the Mean Length of Utterance and use of Brown’s morphemes of sequential Japanese-English bilingual children (Wong, K., 2014)
Researching Story Structure of Japanese-English Bilingual First Grade Children (Bruce, J.,2014).
The roles and responsibilities of the Speech-Language Pathologist in selecting their client’s ’s AAC system (Elkin, M.2014).
Importance of Assessing Expressive and Receptive Language Skills in Children Diagnosed with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (Sagum, J., 2013).
A Comparative Study of Bilingual Children with Typical and Impaired Language: Responses to Wh-questions(Yamada, B., 2013).
Effective Methods of Teaching Vocabulary to K – 12 (Borbo, G., 2013).
Speech-language pathologist service delivery in the Hawai’i DOE (Armenta, S., 2013).
A Direct Comparison of Two Early Childhood Communication Instruments: the Battelle
Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition and the Preschool Language Scale, 5th Edition: (Mallory, K., 2012).
Following sequential directions: Test bias for Japanese ESL students: (Dunn, H., 2012).
Right Facing Images: Does Directionality Overcome Left to Right Scanning Biases in Monolingual English Subjects?: (Brown, J., 2012).
Committee Member
Client Characteristics at the University of Hawaii Speech and Hearing Clinic: Speech-Language Pathology: (Nakakura, S., 2012).
Client Characteristics at the University of Hawaii Speech and Hearing Clinic: Audiology: (Nakagawa, L., 2012).
Client Satisfaction of Speech and Language Services at the University of Hawaii Speech and Hearing Clinic: Speech-Language Pathology Services (Koga, K., 2012).
Client Satisfaction of Speech and Language Services at the University of Hawaii Speech and Hearing Clinic: Audiology Services: (Boyett, K., 2012).
Inaccuracies in text recognition software and the degradation of reading comprehension in postsecondary students with learning disabilities: (Koanui, M., 2012).
Response times to learning the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS): A Comparison of Pictures Symbols to i-Pad: (Silao, J., 2012).
Number of Trials to Learn the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS): A comparison of Picture Symbols to i-Pad: (Bigornia, J., 2012).
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE______
University of Hawai’i at Manoa Commnication Sciences and Disorders:
Admissions Contact: 2012-2014
Second-Year Graduate Student AcademicAdvisor: Fall 2011 to present
John A. Burns School of Medicine Student recruitment Committee: Spring 2012 to July 2014
Co:Chair Admissions Committee: Spring 2012, 2013
Clinical Coordination Committee:, Fall 2012 to Summer 2014.
Curriculum and Education Committee, 2013-2014, 2012-2013
ASHA Annual Accreditation Report Submission Committee:, 2013, 2011
CAA Accreditation and Site Visit Preparation Committee:, 2012-2014
Departmental Research Committee:, Fall 2012 to Summer 2014.
Clinic Manager: The University of Hawai’i Speech and Hearing Clinic, The University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 6/2011-4/2012.
Clinic Manager Recruitment Committee Chair: Position filled April 2012.
Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Professor Recruitment Committee Chair: Position filled September 2012
Audiology Assistant Professor Recruitment Committee Chair: Position filled August 2012.
Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Professor Recruitment Committee Chair: Fall 2011 to August 2012-position still in recruitment
NSSLHA (National Student Speech-Language Hearing Association) Departmental Co-Advisor: January 2012 to August 2012.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE______
UH Manoa Experience: CSD Departmental Informational booth for Speech-Language Pathology Program, March 2014
Event Organizer-Training caregivers to boost language and literacy skills for elementary school-aged children: An interactive booth. HSHA, UH CSD Graduate Student and UH CSD Faculty collaboration at Child and Youth Day State Capital, Honolulu, HI. October, 2013.
Health Advisory Board, Head Start Preschool Program/Honolulu Community Action Program 2013-July, 2014
Speech-Language Pathology Services Consultant, Head Start Preschool Program/Honolulu Community Action Program: 2013-2014
Hawai’i Speech-Language and Hearing Association Board of Directors 2014-2015, 2013-2014, 2012-2013
Hawai’i Department of Education Speech-Language Pathologist Leadership Committee: May 2012-2013
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Journal of Communication Disorders
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Services in Schools
Applied Psycholinguistics
ASHA 2007 Convention Program Committee: Language and learning in school-age children and adolescents.
Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association (TSHA) Committee Task Force to Develop Standardized Criteria for Qualification of Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: 2008-2010.
Policy and procedure committee to develop a policy for graduate students in CSD regarding student clinical language proficiency issues. Texas State University 2007-2008
Chair Bilingual Interest Group: Texas State University 2007-2008
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION______
Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology, (CCC-SLP), The American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
Speech-Language Pathology License, State of Texas Department of Health Services
Speech-Language Pathology License, State of Hawai’i Department of Health Services
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS______
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Austin Area of Speech-Language Pathologists
The Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association
The Hawaii Speech-Language Hearing Association
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