Rate My Professor Solaman Cooperson

Solaman Cooperson is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Redlands. He earned his Ph.D. in communicative sciences and disorders from the University of Texas, M.S. in communication sciences and disorders from Pennsylvania State University, and B.A. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Cooperson brings professional experience as a speech-language pathologist working with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. As a doctoral student on the Academic Clinical Research Training grant at the University of Texas at Austin, he completed research, teaching, and clinical supervision rotations aimed at increasing knowledge of language development and disorders in Spanish-English bilinguals. Since joining the University of Redlands, he has served in academic appointments including Associate Professor of Communicative Disorders since 2014, advancing to Professor.

At the University of Redlands, Cooperson teaches courses in speech sound development and disorders, phonetics, speech science, and language science, and supervises clinical services for children with speech sound disorders. His research specializations encompass speech sound development in bilingual children, relationships between speech sound and language development, and the application of structural priming to investigate processes in language production. Key publications include Cooperson, S. J., & Taliancich-Klinger, C. L. (2022). Priming of prepositional phrases and direct objects in Spanish-speaking children. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 7(5), 1539–1550; Bedore, L. M., & Cooperson, S. J. (2022). Morphosyntactic development. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Bilingual Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers (3rd ed.); Ruiz-Felter, R., Cooperson, S. J., Bedore, L. M., & Peña, E. D. (2016). Influence of current input–output and age of first exposure on phonological acquisition in early bilingual Spanish–English-speaking kindergarteners. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 51, 368–383; and Taliancich-Klinger, C., & Cooperson, S. J. (2017). Clinical supervision in a medical setting: A preliminary study of the practices and beliefs of expert and novice clinician supervisors. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2, 8–16. He received a Meritorious poster submission award at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Atlanta in 2012.