Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.

Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.

Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., has conducted research for more than 35 years on first and second language acquisition with a special emphasis on young bilingual and bi-dialectal speakers. Her most recent book is Raising a Bilingual Child, published in English by Random House, in Spanish by Bilingual Readers, in Polish by Media Rodzina, and in Mandarin by Beijing Language and Culture University Press. She is a co-author, with Seymour, Roeper, de Villiers & de Villiers of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation tests from Ventris Learning.