Lab Director
Michelle Hernandez
Dr. Michelle Hernandez, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, directs the Bilingual Outcomes and Language Development (BOLD) Lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research focuses on bilingual language development and improving the assessment of bilingual children, particularly children with developmental language disorder (DLD).
Her work examines how bilingual children’s language abilities and language use vary across languages and communicative contexts, with a particular focus on Spanish-English bilingual children. Her research interests include bilingual language assessment, code-switching, language proficiency, and the influence of family and conversational contexts on children’s language use. Her long-term goal is to improve approaches for distinguishing language differences associated with bilingual development from language difficulties associated with DLD.