Advisory Board

Dr. Toya Wyatt is a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) where she been a member of the faculty since 1990. Her areas of teaching and clinical/research expertise include child language development and disorders with a specialized focus on children’s acquisition of AAE and the assessment of AAE child speakers.

Dr. Wyatt completed her doctoral studies at UMASS under the guidance of the four authors/contributors of the DELV. She also served as a clinical consultant on the grant that led to initial publication of the DELV. She looks forward to continued work on the DELV as a member of its Advisory Board.

Dr. Wyatt holds a B.S. and M.A. degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Northwestern University as well as a Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also an ASHA and CSHA fellow.

Janice E. Jackson earned her Ph.D. in Communication Disorders from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working with Harry Seymour, Tom Roeper, and Jill de Villiers. She is president of Speaking Strategies Inc. and a clinical service provider for Dekalb County School District in Georgia. Dr. Jackson’s research interests include non-biased assessment and linguistic bases of language impairment with a body of research in the area of language acquisition in African-American-English speakers.

Janna Oetting earned her PhD from the University of Kansas and is currently a professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Associate Vice President in the Office of Research and Economic Development at Louisiana State University. With 30 years of experience studying children’s acquisition and use of various dialects of English in rural and urban communities of Louisiana, Janna Oetting brings expertise to the DELV team relating to children’s acquisition and use of dialects, with a particular interest in measures that are sensitive to individual differences, developmental change, and childhood language impairment within contexts of linguistic diversity.

Dr. Christina Foreman earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, she holds an M.S. degree in Communication Disorders and a B.A. in English and Spanish Literatures from Stanford University. She is the founder and director of Hope Speech and Language Center, a private practice focused on providing culturally and linguistically appropriate evaluations for students with multilingual and multicultural backgrounds throughout Connecticut.

Dr. Foreman completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences as part of the DELV development team. She held the position of lecturer and then Assistant Professor before moving into the arena of private practice. Currently, Dr. Foreman works with multilingual therapists (Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, and adding more) throughout the United States and Mexico to improve the speech-language evaluation process and support families from diverse backgrounds.