Faculty & Staff

Aquiles Iglesias
Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Aquiles Iglesias, Ph.D

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Aquiles Iglesias is the Dean of the Graduate School and a Professor of Communication Sciences at Temple University. As Dean of the Graduate School, a position that he has held since September 2003 (Acting Dean 2002-2003), Dr. Iglesias oversees all graduate education at one of the largest and most diverse public research institutions in the country. His major area of research interest lies in cultural and linguistic diversity, with a concentration on language acquisition in bilingual children. Dr. Iglesias was the principal investigator of a six-year contract funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an assessment protocol for bilingual Spanish/English children. He was the CO-PI of two projects funded by NICHD to examine the relationship between oral language skills and literacy development in school-aged Latino children and Mexican children, and is the PI of an NSF-AGEP grant to increase the representation of under-represented minorities in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

Dr. Iglesias spent 12 years as chair of the Communication Sciences Department in the College of Health Professions. In addition, he served as the associate director of the National Center on Education in the Inner Cities and the Laboratory for Student Success, the mid-Atlantic regional educational laboratory. Dr. Iglesias is currently an editorial consultant for several research journals, including the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, and Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice About Men as Fathers. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr. Iglesias received a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1970 and a master’s in speech-language pathology in 1972, both awarded by Southern Illinois University. He earned his Ph.D. in speech science from the University of Iowa in 1978.

RESEARCH AREAS
Dr. Iglesias is presently involved in two research projects examining the development of language in ELL children in kindergarten through 3rd grade and their counterparts in monolingual Spanish environment.

Funding Sources
Dr Iglesias has received funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Communicative Disorders, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Institute of Education Science, and the U.S. Department of Education

Selected Publications:

Goldstein, B. A. and Iglesias (in press). Language and dialectal variations. In J. Bernthal and N. Bankson (Eds.) Articulation and Phonological Disorders, Allyn Bacon.

Heilmann, J., Miller, J., Iglesias, A., Fabiano, L., Nockerts, A., & Andriacchi, K. (2008). Language sample transcript accuracy and reliability reconsidered. Topics in Language Disorders, 28,2, 178-188.

Goldstein, B.A. & Iglesias, A. (2007). Multicultural issues. In R. Paul (Ed.), Introduction to clinical methods in communication disorders, 2nd edition. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes, pp 283-301.

Francis, D., Snow, C., August, D., Carlson, C., Miller, J., & Iglesias, A. (2006). Measures of reading comprehension: A latent variable analysis of the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension. Scientific Studies of Reading, 10 (3), 301-322.

Rojas, R. and Iglesias, A. (2006). Bilingual (Spanish/English) Narrative Language Analyses: Why and how? Perspectives, Division 14 Newsletter, ASHA

Miller, J. F., Heilmann, J., Nockerts, A., Iglesias, A., Fabiano, and Francis, D. (2006). Oral language and reading in bilingual children. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2(1), 30-43.

Francis, D., Carlson, C.D., Fletcher, J.M., Foorman, B., Goldenberg, C., Vaughn, S., Miller, J., Iglesias, A., Papanicolaou, A. (Spring, 2005). Oracy/Literacy development of Spanish-speaking children: A Multi-level program of research on language minority children and the instruction, school and community contexts, and interventions that influence their academic outcomes. Perspectives (The International Dyslexia Association) 31 (2), 8-12

Goldstein, B.A., Fabiano, L., & Iglesias, A. (2004). Spontaneous and Imitative Forms in Spanish-speaking children. Language Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools, 35, 5-15.

Iglesias, A (2004) Language disorders in Latino children. MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders , pp.321-323. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Goldstein, B. A. and Iglesias (2004). Language and dialectal variations. In J. Bernthal and N. Bankson (Eds.) Articulation and Phonological Disorders, pp 348-375. Allyn Bacon.

Iglesias, A. and Fabiano, L. (2003). Latino bilingual students: The contexts of home and school. In V. I. Kloosterman (Ed.), Latino Students in American Schools: Historical and Contemporary Views, pp. 79-94. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Iglesias, A. (2002). Black English. In Salkind, N.J. (Ed.), Child Development. MacMillan Psychology Reference Series, Vol.1 [pp. 64]. New York:Macmillan Library Reference.

Iglesias, A. (2002). In Battle, D. (Ed.), Latino Culture. Communication Disorders in Multicultural Populations [3rd Edition] [pp. 179-202]. Woburn, MA: Butterworth Heinemann.

Goldstein, B.A. & Iglesias, A. (2002). Multicultural issues. In R. Paul (Ed.), Introduction to clinical methods in communication disorders [pp. 261-279]. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.

Goldstein, B.A. and Iglesias, A. (2001). The effect of dialect on phonological analysis: Evidence from Spanish-speaking children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 394-406.

Peña, E., Iglesias, A., Lidz, C.S. (2001) Reducing test bias through dynamic assessment of children’s word learning ability. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 138-154.

Iglesias, A. (2001). What test should I use? Seminars in Speech and Language, 22, 3-16.

Fagan, J. & Iglesias, A. (2000). The relationship between fathers and children’s communication skills and children’s behavior problems: A study of Head Start children. Early Education and Development, 11 (3), 307-320.

AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS/SOFTWARE

Goldstein, B., & Iglesias, A. (2006). Contextual Probes of Articulation Competence-Spanish. Greenville, SC: Super Duper, Inc.

Miller, J. & Iglesias, A. Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT), English & Spanish, Version 9, Language Analysis Lab, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2006.

"Sharing Parenting," 1990. Twenty-five minute videotape and accompanying training manual to be used for parents or teacher in-services dealing with child socialization practices and/or child development.

Contact Information
(215) 204-3868 – 501 Carnell Hall
iglesias@temple.edu