Lisa Fitton received her Ph.D. in Communication Science & Disorders in 2018. She is a former Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute of Education Science (IES) fellow and Bilingual Oral Language and Literacy Development & Disorders scholar through the Office of Special Education Programs. She served as the project coordinator for Project BLOOM from 2016-2017.
Lisa's research focuses on identifying appropriate assessment and intervention practices to support the needs of minority-language speakers in the United States. She is particularly interested in how research methodology and statistics influence findings, and in developing tools to reduce the gap between high quality research and practice. Lisa worked as a post-doctoral scholar at the Florida Center for Reading Research on the Reach Every Reader Project funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. She began a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Communication Sciences & Disorders Department in 2018. |
Select Publications while at FSU
Wood, C., Fitton, L., Petscher, Y., Rodriguez, E., Sunderman, G. & Lim, T. (2018). The effect of ebook vocabulary instruction on Spanish-English speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Fitton, L., Wofford, M. C., Bustamante, K. N., De Novi, N., Nuñez, B., & Wood, C. L. (2017). Comparing methods for assessing the English grammatical development of Spanish-speaking English learners. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2(16). doi: 10.1044/persp2.SIG16.45
Fitton, L., Bustamante, K., Wofford, M. C., Brown, D., Gabas, C., Hoge, R., & Wood, C. (2016). Intensifying English vocabulary instruction for English language learners. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1, 4-14. doi: 10.1044/persp1.SIG16.4
Wood, C., McIlraith, A., & Fitton, L. (2016). State of practice for language and literacy research: A review of methods in ten relevant journals. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 43, 195-207. doi: 1092-5171/16/4302-0195
Select Presentations while at FSU
Fitton, L., Hoge, R., Wood, C., & Petscher, Y. (2017, November). The dimensionality & criterion validity of the sentence repetition subtest of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment. Oral technical research session at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Los Angeles, CA. (National)
Fitton, L., McIlraith, A., Hooker, J., Sparapani, N., Wood, C., & Adlof, S. (2017, November). Adapting to the modeling revolution: A guide to SEM & HLM. Oral seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Los Angeles, CA. (National)
Fitton, L., McIlraith, A., Wood, C., Diehm, E., Brown, J., & Adlof, S. (2016, November). When real life happens: A practical approach to interpreting & conducting rigorous research. Oral seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Philadelphia, PA. (National)
Fitton, L., McIlraith, A. L., & Wood, C. (2016, July). The impact of shared book reading on young ELs’ English outcomes: A meta-analysis. Poster presentation at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference. Porto, Portugal. (International)
Fitton, L., Wood, C. & Horton, R. (2015, July). Dialect feature use in writing: Relation to reading
achievement and high-stakes assessment. Poster presentation at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference. Waimea, HI. (International)
Wood, C., Fitton, L., Petscher, Y., Rodriguez, E., Sunderman, G. & Lim, T. (2018). The effect of ebook vocabulary instruction on Spanish-English speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Fitton, L., Wofford, M. C., Bustamante, K. N., De Novi, N., Nuñez, B., & Wood, C. L. (2017). Comparing methods for assessing the English grammatical development of Spanish-speaking English learners. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2(16). doi: 10.1044/persp2.SIG16.45
Fitton, L., Bustamante, K., Wofford, M. C., Brown, D., Gabas, C., Hoge, R., & Wood, C. (2016). Intensifying English vocabulary instruction for English language learners. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1, 4-14. doi: 10.1044/persp1.SIG16.4
Wood, C., McIlraith, A., & Fitton, L. (2016). State of practice for language and literacy research: A review of methods in ten relevant journals. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 43, 195-207. doi: 1092-5171/16/4302-0195
Select Presentations while at FSU
Fitton, L., Hoge, R., Wood, C., & Petscher, Y. (2017, November). The dimensionality & criterion validity of the sentence repetition subtest of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment. Oral technical research session at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Los Angeles, CA. (National)
Fitton, L., McIlraith, A., Hooker, J., Sparapani, N., Wood, C., & Adlof, S. (2017, November). Adapting to the modeling revolution: A guide to SEM & HLM. Oral seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Los Angeles, CA. (National)
Fitton, L., McIlraith, A., Wood, C., Diehm, E., Brown, J., & Adlof, S. (2016, November). When real life happens: A practical approach to interpreting & conducting rigorous research. Oral seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Philadelphia, PA. (National)
Fitton, L., McIlraith, A. L., & Wood, C. (2016, July). The impact of shared book reading on young ELs’ English outcomes: A meta-analysis. Poster presentation at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference. Porto, Portugal. (International)
Fitton, L., Wood, C. & Horton, R. (2015, July). Dialect feature use in writing: Relation to reading
achievement and high-stakes assessment. Poster presentation at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference. Waimea, HI. (International)