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Ji Sook Park

Park, Jisook, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 

Phone: 813.974.3690
Office: PCD 4015

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Child Language & Bilingualism Lab

Dr. Jisook Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Florida and the director of the Child Language and Bilingualism Laboratory (CLBL). Her research interests focus on understanding the underlying mechanisms of language disorders and improving diagnostic accuracy in monolingual and bilingual children. She specializes in developmental language disorder with an emphasis on cognition and bilingualism. 

Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship  University of Memphis  2019-2020
Postdoctoral Fellowship  University of Toronto  2017-2019
Postdoctoral Fellowship  University of Wisconsin-Madison  2015-2017
Ph.D.  Pennsylvania State University  2014
B.A.   Konkuk University 2001

Teaching

SPA 3004| Introduction to Language Development and Disorders

SPA 6401| Pediatric Language Disorders

SPA 6473| Bilingual Assessment and Intervention

Recent Scholarly Activity 

 JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED) 

  • Park, J., Miller, C. A., Sanjeevan, T., Van Hell, J. G., Weiss, D. J., & Mainela-Arnold, E. (2021). Non-linguistic cognitive measures as predictors of functionally-defined developmental language disorder in monolingual and bilingual children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12632

  • Park, J., Miller, C. A., Sanjeevan, T., Van Hell, J. G., Weiss, D. J., & Mainela-Arnold, E. (2020). Bilingualism and processing speed in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(5), 1479-1493. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00403  (highlighted in the ASHA Now E-newsletter, June 16, 2020).  

  • Park, J., Miller, C. A., Sanjeevan, T., Van Hell, J. G., Weiss, D. J., & Mainela-Arnold, E. (2019). Bilingualism and attention in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(11), 4105-4118. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-18-0341

  • Park, J., Miller, C. A., Rosenbaum, D. A., Sanjeevan, T., Van Hell, J. G., Weiss, D. J., & Mainela-Arnold, E. (2018). Bilingualism and procedural learning in typically developing children and children with language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(3), 634-644. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-16-0409 

  • Park, J., Ellis Weismer, S. & Kaushanskaya, M. (2018). Changes in executive function over time in bilingual and monolingual school-aged children. Developmental Psychology, 54(10), 1842-1853. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000562 

 BOOK CHAPTER (PEER-REVIEWED) 

  • Laasonen, M., & Park, J. (2022). Chapter 3. Kielellisten vaikeuksien riski- ja suojaavat tekijät (Risk and protective factors for developmental language disorder). In S. Kunnari., & M. Laasonen. (Eds.), Lasten kielelliset vaikeudet (ja niiden kuntoutus) [Child language disorders (and their intervention)]. PS-KUSTANNUS, PL. https://www.ps-kustannus.fi/Sari-Kunnari/Lasten-kielelliset-vaikeudet.html