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Javier Jasso

Javier Jasso

Javier Jasso

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
he/him

jasso.14@osu.edu

260 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd,
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Bilingualism in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
  • Morphosyntax
  • Speech-Language Pathology

Education

  • Ph.D. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
  • M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, San JosĂ© State University
  • B.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Davis

Javier Jasso draws from his clinical experiences as a bilingual speech-language pathologist working with preschool and school-age children and their families to investigate bilingualism in heritage language contexts, particularly in Latinx/a/o communities. The overarching goals of his work are to (a) advance our understanding of bilingual children’s grammatical development; (b) disentangle differences in this development as a function of language ability (i.e., typically developing bilinguals vs. those with developmental language disorder); and (c) better understand the social and linguistic factors that contribute to the quality of care for children from linguistically and racially minoritized communities. This work moves away monolingual-centric theories, epistemologies, and practice patterns that have historically produced deficit framings of bilingual practices.