Javier Jasso
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics
he/him
260 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd,
Columbus, OH 43210
Office Hours
Wed/Fri 11-12pm & by appointment
Areas of Expertise
- Bilingualism in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
- Morphosyntax
- Speech-Language Pathology
Education
- Ph.D., Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2022
- M.A., Speech-Language Pathology, San José State University, 2015
- B.A., Linguistics, University of California, Davis, 2011
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.