Vera Clellen

Bio

Dr. Vera Gutierrez-Clellen’sresearch program has been focused on the acquisition of language in bilingual children with typical and impaired development. Her work has been funded by the NIH as well as the U.S. Dept. of Education. She developed the first language test in the field that addresses the cultural and linguistic diversity of Latino children in the country: the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA). Dr. Gutiérrez-Clellen has also been an expert consultant for the State of California for the development of infant and toddler program guidelines, as well as preschool standards for English language learners. She has provided numerous years of service to national peer review panels for ASHA, NIH-NIDCD, and the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education. In 2005, she was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Head Start Accountability and Educational Performance Measures, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.