Lizbeth H. Finestack, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Dr. Finestack directs the Child Language Intervention Lab (CLIL). The CLIL aims to identify efficient and effective language interventions and to improve assessment approaches for children and adolescents with language impairment. The CLIL focuses on children with developmental language disorder; children with neurodevelopmental disorders, and bilingual children. CLIL is focused on developing new child language intervention techniques; understanding the language profiles of children and adolescents with different neurodevelopmental disorders; improving assessment techniques for bilingual children; and identifying sensitive outcome measures to use in clinical trials.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Cultural and Linguistic Diversity/Bilingual Speakers/English as a Second Language
• Developmental Language Disorder
• Genetic Syndromes (Associated with Language Disorders)
• Intellectual Disabilities
• Language/Learning Disabilities

Ages of Emphasis:

• Birth to Three
• Early Education (Ages 3–5)
• Early Elementary (Kindergarten to Grade 6)