Christine E. Fiestas, Ph.D.
Christine E. Fiestas, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the graduate Speech- Pathology program at St. Augustine University for Health Sciences-Austin campus. Her clinical specialty areas are in the assessment and treatment of developmental language disorders from birth through school ages as well as the assessment of reading and fluency disorders. Her lines of research include the assessment and treatment of language and literacy disorders for individuals who are bilingual, multilingual and speakers of dialects which are not mainstream English. These lines of inquiry include development of language assessment instruments for diagnosis, screening and progress monitoring measures for diverse children including children who are bilingual as well as intervention research to support both languages of bilingual children with language and literacy disorders.